Gasteria carinata
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Gasteria carinata is a species of the genus Gasteria in the subfamily of the Affodil family (Asphodeloideae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Gasteria carinata grows without a trunk, is prostrate to upright and reaches a height of 3 to 18 centimeters. It sprouts from the base and forms small, dense groups with a diameter of 15 to 80 centimeters. The triangular to triangular-lanceolate, upright spreading leaves are initially arranged in two lines on the shoot and later form a rosette . The lower leaves are spread out. The leaf blade is 3 to 12 inches long and 1 to 5 inches wide. It is covered on both sides with raised or recessed white, dome-like warts arranged in indistinct diagonal stripes. The epidermis is warty or smooth and rarely rough. The cartilaginous leaf margin is notched with tiny warty leaves and only rarely dentate. The tip of the leaf is pointed, rarely bluntly rounded, truncated or rounded. She wears an attached tip. Young leaves are two-lined, spread out erect, ribbon-shaped and smooth or warty.
Inflorescences and flowers
The paniculate inflorescence is simple and reaches a length of 15 to 90 centimeters. Occasionally it has a pair of side branches. The pink flower envelope is 16 to 27 millimeters long. Your bulbous part is narrowly ellipsoidal to rarely spherical-ellipsoidal. At the top it is constricted to a light pink to white, green striped tube with a diameter of 3 to 5 millimeters. The elongated stamens do not protrude from the flower.
Fruits and seeds
The fruits are 19 to 23 millimeters long and 7 millimeters wide. They contain seeds 3 to 4 millimeters long and 2 millimeters wide .
Systematics and distribution
Gasteria carinata is common in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
The first description as Aloe carinata by Philip Miller was published in 1768. Henri-Auguste Duval placed the species in the genus Gasteria in 1809 .
A distinction is made between the following varieties :
- Gasteria carinata var. Carinata
- Gasteria carinata var. Glabra van Jaarsv.
- Gasteria carinata var. Thunbergii (NEBr.) Van Jaarsv.
- Gasteria carinata var. Verrucosa (Mill.) Van Jaarsv.
Numerous synonyms are known.
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literature
- Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld: Gasteria carinata . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 202-203 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Philip Miller: The Gardeners Dictionary . 8th edition, 1768, without page numbers, number 21 ( online ).
- ^ Henri-Auguste Duval: Plantae succulentae in horto Alenconio . Paris 1809, p. 6.
Web links
- Gasteria carinata at plantzafrica.com
- Gasteria carinata var. Carinata in the Red List of South African Plants
- Gasteria carinata var. Glabra in the Red List of South African Plants
- Gasteria thunbergii in the Red List of South African Plants
- Gasteria carinata var. Verrucosa in the Red List of South African Plants
- Gasteria carinata . In: S. Dressler, M. Schmidt, G. Zizka (Eds.): African plants - A Photo Guide. Senckenberg, Frankfurt / Main 2014.