Aloe simii

Aloe simii
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe simii
Scientific name
	Aloe simii
	Pole Evans

Aloe simii is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet simii honors the botanist Thomas Robertson Sim (1858–1938), who was the first to collect the plant.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe simii grows stemless and simply or rarely sprouting and then forming small groups. The 15 to 20 lanceolate, narrowed leaves form a dense rosette . The bright to milky green, indistinctly lined leaf blade is 40 to 60 centimeters long and 9 to 12 centimeters wide. Occasionally there are a few indistinct light spots on it. The horny, light brown teeth on the leaf margin are 3 to 4 millimeters long and 10 to 15 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence has five to nine branches and reaches a length of 100 to 200 centimeters. The lower branches are occasionally branched again. The loose, cylindrical, pointed grapes are 30 to 65 centimeters long. The lanceolate, pointed bracts have a length of about 12 to 15 millimeters. The strawberry-red flowers are on 12 to 15 millimeter long peduncles . They are 35 to 40 millimeters long and trimmed at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 12 millimeters. Above this they are suddenly narrowed to 5 millimeters and finally widened towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 12 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.

genetics

The number of chromosomes is . ${\ displaystyle 2n = 14}$

Systematics and distribution

Aloe simii is widespread in the grass on stony, rocky slopes in the South African province of Mpumalanga at altitudes of about 1500 meters.

The first description by Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans was published in 1917.

proof

literature

Susan Carter , John J. Lavranos , Leonard E. Newton , Colin C. Walker : Aloes. The definitive guide . Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2011, ISBN 978-1-84246-439-7 , pp. 195 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe simii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 179-180 .

Individual evidence

↑ Gideon F. Smith, Colin C. Walker, Estrela Figueiredo: What's in a name: epithets in Aloe L. (Asphodelaceae) and what to call the next new species . In: Bradleya . Volume 28, 2010, p. 100.
^ Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa . Volume 5, 1917, p. 704.

Web links

Aloe simii in the Red List of South African Plants

[1] Gideon F. Smith, Colin C. Walker, Estrela Figueiredo: What's in a name: epithets in Aloe L. (Asphodelaceae) and what to call the next new species . In: Bradleya . Volume 28, 2010, p. 100.

[2] Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa . Volume 5, 1917, p. 704.