Astroloba foliolosa

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

Astroloba foliolosa is a species of the genus Astroloba in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet foliolosa comes from Latin and means 'with small leaves'.

description

Vegetative characteristics

The upright to spreading leaves of Astroloba foliolosa form five straight rows or are brick-shaped on the shoots. The light to gray-green, shiny leaf blade is 14 to 40 millimeters long and 9 to 24 millimeters wide. The tips of the leaves are curved upwards and outwards. The tip is 0.4 to 1.5 millimeters long. The leaf surface is smooth or has small elongated, slightly raised areas of the same color. There are occasional whitish spots or darker green lines on the underside.

Inflorescences and flowers

The occasionally branched inflorescence is a loose-flowered grape 5 to 29 centimeters in length. The greenish white or light cream-colored flowers are on 0.8 to 3.8 millimeter long peduncles and have white or cream-colored tips. Your midrib is green and tinged beige or glauk . The perigon tube is 6 to 9 millimeters long and about 3 millimeters in diameter. Your bent back tips are about 1.5 to 3 millimeters long.

genetics

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

Systematics and distribution

Astroloba foliolosa is common in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

The first description as Aloe foliolosa by Adrian Hardy Haworth was published in 1804. Antonius Josephus Adrianus Uitewaal placed the species in the genus Astroloba in 1947 .

Synonyms are Apicra foliolosa (Haw.) Willd. (1811, incorrect name ICBN -Article 11.3), Haworthia foliolosa (Haw.) Haw. (1812) and Astroloba spiralis subsp. foliolosa (Haw.) LEGroen (1987).

proof

literature

NL Meyer, GF Smith: Astroloba foliolosa . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 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. 86.
^ Adrian Hardy Haworth: A new Arrangement of the Genus Aloe, with a chronological Sketch of the progressive Knowledge of that Genus, and of other succulent Genera . In: Transactions of the Linnean Society of London . Volume 7, Number 1, London 1804, p. 7 ( online ).
↑ AJA Uitewaal: Revisie van de nomenclatuur the genera Haworthia en Apicra . In: Succulenta . Number 5, 1947, p. 54.

Web links

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

Astroloba foliolosa 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. 86.

[2] Adrian Hardy Haworth: A new Arrangement of the Genus Aloe, with a chronological Sketch of the progressive Knowledge of that Genus, and of other succulent Genera . In: Transactions of the Linnean Society of London . Volume 7, Number 1, London 1804, p. 7 ( online ).

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