Astroloba congesta

Astroloba congesta
	Astroloba congesta
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Astroloba
Type :	Astroloba congesta
Scientific name
	Astroloba congesta
	( Salm-Dyck ) Uitewaal

Astroloba congesta is a species of the genus Astroloba in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet congesta comes from Latin , means 'crowded' and refers to the compactly arranged leaves.

description

Vegetative characteristics

The upright to spreading leaves of Astroloba congesta form five straight rows or are rarely tiled on the shoots. The light to dark green, shiny leaf blade is 20 to 47 millimeters long and 14 to 28 millimeters wide. The tips of the leaves are curved upwards and outwards. Warts are not present on the leaf surface. However, there are seldom small, elongated, very few raised areas of the same color on some leaves.

Inflorescences and flowers

The occasionally branched inflorescence is a loose-flowered grape 6 to 31 centimeters in length. The green, cream-colored flowers stand on 0.7 to 4 millimeter long peduncles and have white or cream-colored tips. The straight perigone tube is 6 to 9 millimeters long and about 3 millimeters in diameter. Their bent back tips are 1.4 to 3 millimeters in length.

genetics

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

Systematics and distribution

Astroloba congesta is common in the South African province of Eastern Cape .

The first description as Aloe congesta by Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck was published in 1854. Antonius Josephus Adrianus Uitewaal placed the species in the genus Astroloba in 1947 .

Synonyms are Apicra congesta (Salm-Dyck) Baker (1880), Astroloba foliolosa subsp. congesta (Salm-Dyck) Roberts Reinecke (1965, nom. inval. ICBN -Article 29.1), Haworthia congesta (Salm-Dyck) Parr (1971), Aloe deltoidea Hook.f. (1873), Apicra deltoidea (Hook.f.) Baker (1880), Astroloba deltoidea (Hook.f.) Uitewaal (1947), Haworthia deltoidea (Hook.f.) Parr (1971), Apicra turgida Baker (1889), Apicra deltoidea var. Turgida (Baker) A. Berger (1908), Astroloba deltoidea var. Turgida (Baker) H. Jacobsen (1960, nom. Inval. ICBN -Article 33.2), Astroloba turgida (Baker) H. Jacobsen (1960, nom. inval. ICBN -Article 33.2?), Haworthia deltoidea var. turgida (Baker) Parr (1971, nom. inval. ICBN -Article 34), Apicra deltoidea var. intermedia A. Berger (1908), Astroloba deltoidea var. intermedia (A.Berger) Uitewaal (1947), Haworthia deltoidea var. Intermedia (A.Berger) Parr (1971) and Haworthia shieldsiana Parr (1971, nom. Inval. ICBN -Article 34.1).

proof

literature

NL Meyer, GF Smith: Astroloba congesta . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 194-195 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 52.
^ Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck: Monographia generum Aloes et Mesembrianthemi . Part 6, Bonn 1854.
↑ AJA Uitewaal: Revisie van de nomenclatuur the genera Haworthia en Apicra . In: Succulenta . Number 5, 1947, p. 54.

Web links

Commons : Astroloba congesta - collection of images, videos and audio files

Astroloba congesta 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. 52.

[2] Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck: Monographia generum Aloes et Mesembrianthemi . Part 6, Bonn 1854.

[3] AJA Uitewaal: Revisie van de nomenclatuur the genera Haworthia en Apicra . In: Succulenta . Number 5, 1947, p. 54.