Aloe albovestita

Aloe albovestita
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe albovestita
Scientific name
	Aloe albovestita
	S. Carter & Brandham

Aloe albovestita is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet albovestita is derived from the Latin words albus for 'white' and vestitus for 'clothed'.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe albovestita grows without a trunk, sprouts and forms small clumps. The lanceolate leaves form rosettes . The glauke , striking longitudinally striped leaf blade is 20 to 30 centimeters long and 12 centimeters wide. There are a few lighter spots on the top of the sheet. The red-brown teeth on the narrow, cartilaginous leaf margin are 1.5 millimeters long and are 5 to 10 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence consists of two to three branches and reaches a length of 75 centimeters. The cylindrical to almost heady grapes are 10 to 20 centimeters long and 5 centimeters wide. The lanceolate bracts have a length of 15 millimeters and are 3 millimeters wide. The turbid pink flowers have greyish tips, are finely spotted with white and covered with white frost. They stand on 18 millimeter long flower stalks . The flowers are 25 to 33 millimeters long and rounded at their base. Above the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 7 millimeters. Above that, they are narrowed to 4.5 millimeters. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 7 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.

genetics

The number of chromosomes is . ${\ displaystyle 2n = 14}$

Systematics and distribution

Aloe albovestita is widespread in the north-east of Somalia on rocky ground and in crevices, often in deep shade at altitudes of 1400 to 2000 meters.

The first description by Susan Carter and Peter Brandham was published in 1983.

proof

literature

Susan Carter , John J. Lavranos , Leonard E. Newton , Colin C. Walker : Aloes. The definitive guide . Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2011, ISBN 978-1-84246-439-7 , pp. 161 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe albovestita . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 108-109 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 6.
^ Susan Carter, Peter Brandham: New species of Aloe from Somalia . In: Bradleya . Volume 1, 1983, pp. 20-21.

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 6.

[2] Susan Carter, Peter Brandham: New species of Aloe from Somalia . In: Bradleya . Volume 1, 1983, pp. 20-21.