Astroloba bullulata

Astroloba bullulata
	Astroloba bullulata
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Astroloba
Type :	Astroloba bullulata
Scientific name
	Astroloba bullulata
	( Jacq. ) Uitewaal

Astroloba bullulata in the Karoo

inflorescence

Astroloba bullulata is a species of the genus Astroloba in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet bullulata comes from Latin , means 'vesicle' and refers to the warty leaf surface.

description

Vegetative characteristics

The usually almost upright leaves of Astroloba bullulata form five straight rows or are seldom arranged in a brick-like manner on the shoots. The dirty greenish-brown leaf blade is 23 to 40 millimeters long and 13 to 26 millimeters wide. The leaf tips are curved outwards, often towards the keeled side. The leaf surface is warty, with the warts, which are about 1 millimeter in diameter, rather protruding. There are either a few irregularly scattered warts or they are numerous and arranged in transverse lines.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence is a loose-flowered grape 14 to 30 centimeters in length. The upright, greenish-brown flowers are on 3 to 6 millimeter long peduncles and have yellowish tips. The straight perigone tube is 8 to 11 millimeters long and about 3 millimeters in diameter. Their tips have a length of about 2 millimeters.

genetics

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

Systematics and distribution

Astroloba bullulata is common in the South African provinces of the Western Cape and Eastern Cape .

The first description as Aloe bullulata by Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin was published in 1809. Antonius Josephus Adrianus Uitewaal placed the species in the genus Astroloba in 1947 .

Synonyms are Apicra pentagona var. Bullulata (Jacq.) Baker (1880), Haworthia bullulata (Jacq.) Parr (1971), Apicra bullulata (Jacq.) Willd. (1811, incorrect name ICBN -Article 11.3), Astroloba bullata hort. (no year, nom. illeg. ICBN -Article 61.1), Apicra egregia Poelln. (1930) Astroloba egregia (Poelln.) Uitewaal (1947), Haworthia egregia (Poelln.) Parr (1971), Astroloba egregia var. Fardeniana Uitewaal (1948) and Haworthia egregia var. Fardeniana (Uitewaal) Parr (1971).

proof

literature

NL Meyer, GF Smith: Astroloba bullulata . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 194 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 34.
^ Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin: Fragmenta Botanica . Vienna 1809, p. 72, plate 109 ( online ).
↑ AJA Uitewaal: Revisie van de nomenclatuur the genera Haworthia en Apicra . In: Succulenta . Number 5, 1947, p. 53.

Web links

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Astroloba bullulata 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. 34.

[2] Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin: Fragmenta Botanica . Vienna 1809, p. 72, plate 109 ( online ).

[3] AJA Uitewaal: Revisie van de nomenclatuur the genera Haworthia en Apicra . In: Succulenta . Number 5, 1947, p. 53.