Aloe reynoldsii beginnings of an inflorescence

    Aloe reynoldsii beginnings of an inflorescence
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Ivan Lätti

    The inflorescence of Aloe reynoldsii is branched into many laxly flowered racemes. A second, smaller panicle may appear after the main one. Flowering happens in the early part of spring.

    The nodding perianths are yellow or tinged pale orange in their upper parts and pale below, usually with a basal swelling over the ovary. The stamens may be included in the perianth tube or shortly exserted in sequence, in two groups of three each. The style exserts its tip, the stigma permanently, not only for a while as the filaments do with the anthers that are contracted again later.

    The three-segmented fruit capsule becomes 2,2 cm long, 1 cm in diameter. It is six-grooved, initially covered for a while in dry perianth remains (Frandsen, 2017; Van Wyk and Smith, 2003; Reynolds, 1974; Jeppe, 1969; iNaturalist).

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