Aloe socialis
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Aloe socialis is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet socialis comes from Latin , means 'sociable' and refers to the tendency of the species to form clumps.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe socialis grows trunk-forming, branched and forms dense bushes. The prostrate or ascending trunk reaches a length of up to 30 centimeters. The 14 to 16 lanceolate, narrowed leaves form a loose rosette . The green leaf blade is 30 to 40 inches long and 1 to 1.5 inches wide. The greenish teeth on the leaf margin are 3 millimeters long and 12 millimeters apart. The leaf sheaths are up to 2 inches long.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence is usually simple, rarely has a branch, and reaches a length of 15 to 25 centimeters. The dense, egg-shaped to almost head-shaped grapes are 4 to 9 inches long and 4 to 5 inches wide. The pointed bracts have a length of 2 to 4 millimeters. The carmine-red flowers have green tips with white edges and stand on 8 to 12 millimeter long flower stalks . They are 16 to 22 millimeters long. At the level of the ovary , the flowers are 7 millimeters in diameter. Above it, they are narrowed to 4 millimeters and finally widened to 5 millimeters towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of about 5 to 7 millimeters.
fruit
Systematics and distribution
Aloe socialis is widespread in Madagascar in forests on basalt or limestone at altitudes of 600 to 900 meters.
The first description as Lomatophyllum sociale by Henri Perrier de La Bâthie was published in 1926. Leonard Eric Newton and Gordon Douglas Rowley put the species in 1996 in the genus Aloe .
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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. 570 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe socialis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 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.
- ^ H. Perrier: Les Lomatophyllum et les Aloë de Madagascar . In: Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie. Botanique . Volume 1, Number 1, 1926, p. 7.
- ^ Gordon D. Rowley: The berries Aloes: Aloe section Lomatophyllum . In: Excelsa . Number 17, 1996, p. 61.