Gasteria nitida
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Gasteria nitida is a species of the genus Gasteria in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Gasteria nitida grows without a trunk, is prostrate to upright and reaches a height of 6 to 20 centimeters. It is solitary or sprouts from the base and forms small groups with a diameter of 5 to 28 centimeters. The succulent, spindle-shaped roots have a diameter of up to 12 millimeters. The triangular-lanceolate, rarely lanceolate-pointed, upright leaves are initially arranged in two lines on the shoot and later form a rosette . The dark green leaf blade is 1.6 to 18 inches long and 2.5 to 8 inches wide. The clearly asymmetrical keeled leaf blade is covered with weak to dense white spots, which are arranged in irregular diagonal stripes. The epidermis is smooth and shiny. The leaf margin is whole or indistinct warty. The tip of the leaf is pointed and has an attached tip. Young leaves are two-lined, ribbon-shaped, 2 to 4 inches long and 2 to 3.5 inches wide. Their epidermis is warty and rarely smooth. They are dark green and not or rarely spotted.
Inflorescences and flowers
The upright inflorescence is a loose panicle . It reaches a length of 20 to 120 centimeters. The bright reddish pink flower envelope is 20 to 25 millimeters long. Your bulbous part is narrow ellipsoidal. It extends over a little more than half the length of the bloom and has a diameter of 5 to 8 millimeters. At the top it is constricted into a tube with a diameter of 4 to 5 millimeters. The stylus does not protrude from the flower envelope.
Fruits and seeds
The elongated fruits are 24 to 30 millimeters long and 8 millimeters wide. They contain seeds 3 to 4 millimeters long and 2 millimeters wide .
Systematics and distribution
Gasteria nitida is common in the South African province of Eastern Cape .
The first description as Aloe nitida by Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck was published in 1817. Adrian Hardy Haworth placed the species in the genus Gasteria in 1827 .
A distinction is made between the following varieties :
- Gasteria nitida var. Nitida
- Gasteria nitida var. Armstrongii (Schönland) van Jaarsv.
Numerous synonyms are known.
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literature
- Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld: Gasteria nitida . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 205-206 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck: Directory of the different types and varieties of the sex Aloe […] Düsseldorf 1817, p. 13 ( online ).
- ^ Adrian Hardy Haworth: Description of New Succulent Plants. (Decas decima novarum Plantarum Succulentarum) . In: Philosophical Magazine . Volume 2, 1827, p. 359 ( online ).
Web links
- Gasteria nitida in the Red List of South African Plants
- Gasteria armstrongii in the Red List of South African Plants