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학명 : Aloiampelos tenuior (Haw.) Klopper & Gideon F.Sm.

학명 이명 : Aloe tenuior Haw.

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영어명 : fence aloe, slender aloe

 

사진: 2022.03.06 한택식물원

 

 

 

 

 

Description

Aloiampelos tenuior is a small to medium-sized, sprawling, bushy shrublet, with a large woody rootstock. It has slender, branching, semi-woody stems, up to 3 m long, that grow upright, but as they grow longer, they tend to need support from surrounding shrubs to remain erect. In time, the plant develops into a mass of intertwined stems, up to about 1.5 m tall with a spread of up to 1.8 m. The leaves are thin to slightly fleshy, blue-green (glaucous), unspotted, and are crowded in lax rosettes at the ends of branches. The leaf margins have small teeth.

 

 

Flowers are borne in slender racemes and may be red, orange-red or yellow. Each flower is small, 10–19 mm long, narrow, about 4 mm in diameter, nodding, cylindric with a slightly expanded mouth through which the anthers and style protrude. Flowering occurs throughout the year, but mainly from late winter (August) through summer into autum (April–May).

 

 

Distribution and habitat

Aloiampelos tenuior occurs in open grassland, shrubland, wooded areas, thicket, coastal scrub, forest margins, rarely in valley bushveld, usually on sandy soils, in the Western Cape, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga. It is widespread in the Eastern Cape and southern KwaZulu-Natal between Somerset East, Cookhouse and Tsolo, with a disjunct population on the border between KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga and Swaziland. It occurs from sea level to 2 300 m altitude.

 

Derivation of name and historical aspects

The genus name Aloiampelos meaning ‘climbing aloe’ is from Aloe and the Greek word, ampelos, meaning ‘climbing plant’, referring to the climbing or rambling habit of this group of aloes. Aloe comes from the Greek word for the dried juice of aloe leaves, which in turn was derived from earlier Sanskrit and Semitic words. The name tenuior meaning ‘more slender’, derived from the Latin word tenuis meaning ‘thin’, ‘fine’, ‘slim’ or ‘slender’. The name was given because it is more slender than its closest and most similar relatives A. ciliaris and A. striatula.

 

 

The genus Aloe was reclassified in 2013, the old broadly circumscribed genus has given way to a narrower generic concept for Aloe and two new genera are now recognised: the rambling aloes Aloiampelos and the tree aloes Aloidendron.

 

 

In the past, a number of subspecies were described: var. decidua, var. densiflora, var. glaucescens, var. rubriflora and var. viridiflora; but none of these are recognised at present, and are regarded as extreme variations of a highly variable species. The var. decidua from the Somerset East District, Fort Beaufort, Alice and Grahamstown that loses its leaves in winter; var. densiflora with more densely flowered racemes from the area around Alice and Breakfast Vlei; var. glaucescens with more bluish leaves from the Kei River; var. rubriflora a rare form with red flowers from Pondoland; and var. viridiflora a rare form with green leaves from north of Port Elizabeth.

 

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