Aloe gracilis

Aloe gracilis
	Aloe gracilis
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe gracilis
Scientific name
	Aloe gracilis
	Haw.

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Distribution area

Aloe gracilis is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet gracilis comes from Latin and means 'slim'.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe gracilis grows trunk-forming and branches from the base. The upright trunks are up to 2 meters long and about 2 centimeters wide. The lanceolate leaves are scattered along the stems on the top 30 to 60 centimeters. Your cloudy green leaf blade is 25 inches long and 2.5 inches wide. The firm, white teeth on the edge of the leaf are 1 millimeter long and 2 to 5 millimeters apart. The light green, lined leaf sheaths are 10 to 15 millimeters long.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence is simple or consists of one or two branches. It becomes 20 to 30 centimeters long. The rather dense, cylindrical to slightly conical grapes are about 10 centimeters long and consist of 20 to 30 flowers . The deltoid narrowed bracts have a length of 5 millimeters and are 2 to 3 millimeters wide. The bright red to scarlet flowers are yellowish at their mouth, they stand on 8 millimeter long flower stalks . The flowers are 40 to 45 millimeters long and rounded at their base. Above the ovary they are hardly narrowed. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of about 10 to 12 millimeters. 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 gracilis is common in thickets on rocky hills in the South African provinces of the Eastern Cape and Western Cape .

The first description by Adrian Hardy Haworth was published in 1825.

Synonyms are Aloe laxiflora N.E.Br. (1906) and Aloiampelos gracilis (Haw.) Klopper & Gideon F.Sm. (2013).

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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. 553 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe gracilis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 141 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 97.
^ Adrian Hardy Haworth: Decas quinta novarum Plantarum Succulentarum . In: Philosophical Magazine . Volume 66, 1825, p. 280 ( online ).
↑ Olwen Megan Grace, Ronell R. Klopper, Gideon F. Smith, Neil R. Crouch, Estrela Figueiredo, Nina Ronsted, Abraham E. van Wyk: A revised generic classification for Aloe (Xanthorrhoeaceae subfam. Asphodeloideae) . In: Phytotaxa . Volume 76, number 1, 2013, pp. 7-14 ( doi: 10.11646 / phytotaxa.76.1.1 ).

Web links

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Aloe gracilis 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. 97.

[2] Adrian Hardy Haworth: Decas quinta novarum Plantarum Succulentarum . In: Philosophical Magazine . Volume 66, 1825, p. 280 ( online ).

[3] Olwen Megan Grace, Ronell R. Klopper, Gideon F. Smith, Neil R. Crouch, Estrela Figueiredo, Nina Ronsted, Abraham E. van Wyk: A revised generic classification for Aloe (Xanthorrhoeaceae subfam. Asphodeloideae) . In: Phytotaxa . Volume 76, number 1, 2013, pp. 7-14 ( doi: 10.11646 / phytotaxa.76.1.1 ).