Aloe Verecunda
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Aloe verecunda is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet verecunda comes from Latin , means 'modest' and refers to the fact that the leaves dry up in winter and the plants are barely recognizable.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe verecunda grows stemless or short stem-forming, is simple or usually sprouts and group-forming. The trunk reaches a length of up to 20 centimeters and is 2 centimeters thick. The eight to ten linear leaves are usually arranged in two rows, but sometimes form almost a rosette . The cloudy green leaf blade is 25 to 35 centimeters long and 0.8 to 1 centimeter wide. There are many small white spots on the underside of the leaf near the base. The soft, white teeth on the leaf margin are tiny and 2 to 7 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The simple inflorescence reaches a length of 25 centimeters. The dense grapes are head-shaped. The egg-shaped-pointed bracts have a length of 20 millimeters and are 15 millimeters wide. The scarlet, greenish-pointed flowers are on 25 to 30 millimeter long peduncles . They are 26 to 30 millimeters long and narrowed briefly at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 12 millimeters. They are not narrowed beyond that. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe verecunda is common in the South African provinces of Northwest , Limpopo , Gauteng and Mpumalanga in grasslands between rocks at altitudes of 1000 to 1900 meters.
The first description by Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans was published in 1917.
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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. 134 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe verecunda . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 189 .
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. 102.
- ^ Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa . Volume 5, 1917, p. 703.
Web links
- Aloe verecunda in the Red List of South African Plants
- Herbarium at JSTOR
- Photo of a plant in the habitat