Aloe anivoranoensis
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Aloe anivoranoensis is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet anivoranoensis refers to the occurrence of the species at Anivorano in Madagascar.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe anivoranoensis grows trunk-forming and is simple or branched from the base. The shoots reach a length of up to 30 centimeters and a diameter of up to 2 centimeters. They are thin at their base and thicker towards the top. The eight to ten linear, runny leaves are scattered along the shoots. Young leaves are erect, with age they curve downwards. The blue-green leaf blade is up to 30 centimeters long and 2 centimeters wide. Their point is long and pointed and often spirally wound. The deltoid teeth on the leaf margin are 2 millimeters long and 1 to 1.5 millimeters apart. The white, reddish tinged leaf sheaths are 1 to 2 centimeters long.
Inflorescences and flowers
The simple inflorescence is erect or ascending and reaches a length of 8 to 20 centimeters. The loose grapes are up to 10 centimeters long. The triangular, long, pointed bracts have a length of up to 15 millimeters. The bright vermilion flowers are whitish at their tips and have a green central stripe. The flowers are 25 to 30 millimeters long, barely constricted above the ovary and slightly curved. Your outer tepals are almost not fused together. The stamens and the style protrude 10 mm out of the flower.
fruit
The fruits are spherical berries 15 millimeters long and 12 millimeters wide.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe anivoranoensis is widespread in the northeast of Madagascar on limestone cliffs in deciduous forest.
The first description as Lomatophyllum anivoranoense by Werner Rauh and René Hebding was published in 1998. In the same year Leonard Eric Newton and Gordon Douglas Rowley placed the species in the genus Aloe .
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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. 557 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe anivoranoensis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 110 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 11.
- ^ Werner Rauh: Three new species of Lomatophyllum and one new Aloe from Madagascar . In: Bradleya . Volume 16, 1998, p. 93.
- ^ Leonard Eric Newton, Gordon Douglas Rowley: New transfers from Lomatophyllum to Aloe (Aloaceae) . In: Bradleya . Volume 16, 1998, p. 114.