Aloe ambiguous
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Aloe ambigens is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet ambigens comes from Latin and means 'to doubt'. The meaning is unclear.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe ambigens grows trunk-forming and branching. The shoots reach a length of up to 40 centimeters. The five to 15 leaves form loose rosettes . The glaucous- green leaf blade is up to 20 centimeters long and 2 to 3 centimeters wide. Sometimes it is covered with a few lighter spots. The white teeth on the leaf margin are up to 1 millimeter long and 10 to 20 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence consists of up to eight branches and reaches a length of up to 100 centimeters. The loose, cylindrical grapes are 4 to 12 centimeters long. The bracts have a length of 5 millimeters and are 3 millimeters wide. The red or yellow flowers are on 4 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 20 to 24 millimeters long. At the level of the ovary , the flowers are 7 millimeters in diameter. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 6 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe ambigens is widespread in Somalia in the Mudug region between Attodi and Dolobscio near Hobbiyo in the scrubland on steep limestone cliffs at altitudes of 1700 to 2000 meters. The species is only known from the locality of the type.
The first description by Emilio Chiovenda was published in 1928.
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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. 483 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe ambiguous . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 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. 8.
- ^ Emilio Chiovenda: Plantae Novae vel Minus Notae ex Aethiopia . Part 1, 1928, p. 6.