Aloe suprafoliata

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

Young plant

Aloe suprafoliata is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet suprafoliata is derived from the Latin words supra for 'over' and suprafoliatus for 'leafed' and refers to the leaves of young plants that are arranged on top of each other like the leaves of a book.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe suprafoliata grows stemless or short stem-forming and usually simple. The upright or prostrate trunk rarely reaches a length of up to 50 centimeters. The approximately 30 narrowed, pointed leaves are arranged in two rows in young plants and later form dense rosettes . The bluish green to bluish gray, indistinctly lined leaf blade becomes reddish brown at its tip. It is 30 to 40 inches long and 7 inches wide. The reddish brown, occasionally two-row teeth on the leaf margin are 2 to 5 millimeters long and 5 to 10 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The simple inflorescence reaches a length of up to 100 centimeters. The rather dense, conical to cylindrical pointed grapes are up to 25 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide. The lanceolate-pointed bracts have a length of about 20 millimeters. The rose-reddish to scarlet-red, frosted flowers are greenish at their mouth and are up to 20 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 40 to 50 millimeters long and rounded at their base or very slightly narrowed. Above the ovary , the flowers are not narrowed. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the style protrude up to 1 millimeter from the flower.

genetics

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

Systematics and distribution

Aloe suprafoliata is distributed in Zimbabwe as well as in the South African provinces of KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga on rocky mountain slopes at altitudes of 1000 to 1600 meters.

The first description by Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans was published in 1916. As a synonym was Aloe suprafoliolata hort. (no year, nom. invalid ICBN -Article 61.1) included in the species.

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. 260 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe suprafoliata . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 183-184 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 234.
^ Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa . Volume 5, 1916, p. 603.

Web links

Commons : Aloe suprafoliata - collection of images, videos and audio files

Aloe suprafoliata in the Red List of South African Plants

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 234.

[2] Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa . Volume 5, 1916, p. 603.