Aloe hereroensis hereroensis
| Family: | Asphodelaceae |
| Full name: | Aloe hereroensis Engl. var. hereroensis |
| Location: | Farm Urikos (2416AC) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Hererolandaalwyn, Sandaalwyn |
| English common name(s): | Hereroland aloe, Herero aloe |
| Synonym(s): | Aloe hereroensis Engl. Aloe hereroensis var. orpeniae (Schönland) A.Berger Aloe orpeniae Schönland |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Plants solitary, stemless or short-stemmed, erect, 300-500 mm tall excluding inflorescence. Leaves ±30, arcuate-ascending, 250-325 x 35-85 mm, shallowly channelled to D-shaped in section, grey-green, dark blue-green or reddish brown, obscurely lined, often with many H-shaped whitish spots. Inflorescence a panicle with 20 or more branches, ±1 m tall; racemes dense, capitate; bracts narrowly lanceolate-acuminate, 15-30 x 5-6 mm, 3-7-nerved. Flowers usually scarlet to deep red, almost magenta, rarely yellow, 25-35 mm long; pedicels 18-50 mm long. Anthers exserted 2-5 mm. Ovary 7-8 x 2-3 mm, green; style exserted 5-10 mm. Fruit ±18 x 7 mm, buff. Seeds ±2.0 x 1.25 x 0.75 mm, almost black, wings prominent, buff. Flowering time June to September. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Southern Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 04 Apr 2015 |
| Camera make: | PENTAX |
| Camera model: | PENTAX K-x |
| Lens aperture: | f/5.6 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/125 s |
| ISO speed: | 100 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
