Aloe amudatensis

Aloe amudatensis
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe amudatensis
Scientific name
	Aloe amudatensis
	Reynolds

Aloe amudatensis is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet amudatensis refers to the occurrence of the species near Amudat in Uganda.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe amudatensis grows without a trunk, sprouts and forms small to large, dense clumps. The approximately twelve lanceolate, narrowed leaves form dense rosettes . The cloudy green leaf blade is 46 inches long and 5.5 inches wide. On it there are oval white spots that form irregular transverse bands. The teeth on the white, horny leaf margin are 2 millimeters long and 3 to 8 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The usually simple inflorescence occasionally consists of one or two branches and reaches a length of 50 to 65 centimeters. The somewhat loose, cylindrical, slightly conical grapes are 8 inches long and 6 to 7 inches wide. The ovoid-deltoid bracts have a length of 10 millimeters and are 3 millimeters wide. The pink-red to coral-red flowers are on 17 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 23 millimeters long and truncated at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 9 millimeters. Above this, they are suddenly narrowed to 6 millimeters and finally widened again towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 7 millimeters. The stamens and the style protrude up to 1 millimeter from the flower.

genetics

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

Systematics and distribution

Aloe amudatensis is distributed in northeast Uganda and northwest Kenya on sandy soils in open deciduous bushland at altitudes of 914 to 1340 meters.

The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1956.

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. 162 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe amudatensis . 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. 9.
^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 22, number 3, Kirstenbosch 1956, pp. 136-137.

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 9.

[2] Journal of South African Botany . Volume 22, number 3, Kirstenbosch 1956, pp. 136-137.