Aloe wickensii

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

Aloe wickensii is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet Aloe wickensii honors the British gardener and plant collector John Edward Wickens (1867–1949).

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe wickensii grows without a trunk, is solitary or forms small groups. The stiff, upright, slightly inwardly curved, lanceolate, pointed leaves form a compact rosette . The dark grayish green, slightly rough leaf blade is up to 60 to 80 centimeters long and 11 to 12 centimeters wide. The piercing, deltoid, dark brown teeth on the leaf margin are 1 to 2 millimeters long and 2 to 10 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The upright inflorescence has three to four curved branches and is 100 to 150 centimeters long. The very dense, narrow cylindrical-conical grapes are 20 centimeters long. The broadly egg-shaped, long pointed bracts have a length of 20 millimeters and are 16 millimeters wide. The light yellow flowers are on about 20 to 25 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are cylindrical-triangular and about 35 millimeters long. At the level of the ovary , they have a diameter of 9 millimeters. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the style stick out about 3 to 5 millimeters from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe pienaarii is widespread in the northeast of South Africa on dolomite slopes in the very open bushland at altitudes of around 1000 meters.

The first description by Illtyd Buller Pole-Evans was published in 1915.

A synonym is Aloe wickensii var. Lutea Reynolds (1935).

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. 381 .

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.
^ IB Pole Evans: Descriptions of Some New Aloes from the Transvaal . In: Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa . Volume 4, number 1, 1915, p. 29 ( DOI: 10.1080 / 00359191509519712I ).

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[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. 102.

[2] IB Pole Evans: Descriptions of Some New Aloes from the Transvaal . In: Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa . Volume 4, number 1, 1915, p. 29 ( DOI: 10.1080 / 00359191509519712I ).