Aloe tormentorii

Aloe tormentorii
	Aloe tormentorii
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe tormentorii
Scientific name
	Aloe tormentorii
	( Marais ) LENewton & GDRowley

Aloe tormentorii is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet tormentorii comes from Latin and refers to the type locality Gunner's Quoin on Round Island .

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe tormentorii grows without a trunk or occasionally with a short trunk and occasionally forms large clumps. The trunk is prostrate. The ovate, pointed leaves form a dense rosette . The light green or bluish leaf blade is about 60 inches long and 15 inches wide. The teeth on the leaf margin are cartilaginous.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence has three to four branches and reaches a length of 60 to 120 centimeters. The dense grapes are 30 centimeters long. The deltoid bracts are 1 to 2 millimeters long. The orange-red, green-tipped flowers are on stems 13 to 20 millimeters long . They are 14 to 17 millimeters long and briefly narrowed at their base. Above the ovary , the flowers are slightly narrowed and finally slightly expanded towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 9 to 12 millimeters. The stamens and the style stick out about 1 millimeter from the flower.

fruit

The fruits are berries .

Systematics and distribution

Aloe tormentorii is common in Mauritius on exposed hill slopes at heights of 240 to 310 meters.

The first description as Lomatophyllum tormentorii by Wessel Marais was published in 1975. Leonard Eric Newton and Gordon Douglas Rowley put the species in 1996 in the genus Aloe .

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. 461 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe tormentorii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 185 .

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. 101.
^ Wessel Marais: The extra-Madagascan species of Lomatophyllum (Liliaceae). In: Kew Bulletin . Volume 29, Number 4, 1974, pp. 721-723.
^ Gordon D. Rowley: The berries Aloes: Aloe section Lomatophyllum . In: Excelsa . Number 17, 1996, p. 61.

Web links

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

Photos of habit and inflorescence on Flickr

[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. 101.

[2] Wessel Marais: The extra-Madagascan species of Lomatophyllum (Liliaceae). In: Kew Bulletin . Volume 29, Number 4, 1974, pp. 721-723.

[3] Gordon D. Rowley: The berries Aloes: Aloe section Lomatophyllum . In: Excelsa . Number 17, 1996, p. 61.