Gasteria ellaphieae
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Gasteria ellaphieae is a species of the genus Gasteria in the subfamily of the Affodil family (Asphodeloideae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Gasteria ellaphieae grows without a trunk, is prostrate to upright and reaches a height of 1.5 to 4 centimeters with a diameter of 5 to 16 centimeters. It is solitary or sprouts from the base and then forms small groups. The triangular-lanceolate and sickle-shaped leaves are initially arranged in two rows on the shoots and later form a rosette . The inner leaves are spread out upright, the outer ones bent back. The dark green leaf blade is 2 to 5 inches long and 1 to 2 inches wide. It is covered with dense, white warts arranged in irregular diagonal stripes. The underside is keeled asymmetrically. The epidermis is warty. The leaf margin is serrated warty. The tip of the leaf is pointed or pointed and has an attached tip. Young leaves are two-lined, ribbon-shaped, initially ascending and later spreading or bent back.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence is an upright panicle and reaches a length of 25 to 40 centimeters. It is not branched or branched in the upper third. The reddish pink flower envelope is 22 to 25 millimeters long. Your bulbous part is narrow ellipsoid, has a diameter of 7.5 millimeters and extends over a little more than half the length of the flower envelope. Above it is constricted to a tube with a diameter of 4.5 millimeters. The stylus does not protrude from the flower envelope.
The flowering time extends from early summer to midsummer.
Fruits and seeds
The fruits are 12 to 15 millimeters long and 5 to 6 millimeters wide. They contain seeds 3 millimeters long and 2 millimeters wide .
Systematics and distribution
Gasteria ellaphieae is widespread in the South African province of Eastern Cape in subtropical thickets in crevices.
The first description by Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld was published in 1991.
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literature
- Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld: Gasteria ellaphieae . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 204-205 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst J. van Jaarsveld: Gasteria ellaphieae van Jaarsveld, a new Gasteria species (Asphodelaceae) from the southeast Cape . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 63, Number 1, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1991, pp. 3-7.
Web links
- Gasteria ellaphieae at plantzafrica.com
- Gasteria ellaphieae in the Red List of South African Plants