Aloe bakeri

Aloe bakeri
	Aloe bakeri
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe bakeri
Scientific name
	Aloe bakeri
	Scott-Elliot

blossoms

Aloe bakeri is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet bakeri honors the British botanist John Gilbert Baker .

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe bakeri grows trunk-forming, branched and forms dense clumps with up to 100 shoots and more. The shoots are 10 to 20 inches long and 0.5 to 0.7 inches wide. The approximately twelve triangular, tapered-pointed leaves are scattered over a length of 5 to 7 centimeters. The green, reddish tinged leaf blade is 7 inches long and 8 millimeters wide. There are occasional light green spots on the leaf surface. The solid white teeth on the leaf edge are 1 millimeter long and 1 to 2 millimeters apart. The leaf sheaths are 5 to 10 millimeters long.

Inflorescences and flowers

The simple inflorescence reaches a height of 25 to 30 centimeters. The loose, almost capped grapes are 3 to 4 centimeters long. They consist of eight to ten flowers . The egg-shaped and pointed bracts have a length of 3 millimeters and are 1.5 millimeters wide. The reddish apricot-colored flowers at their base are orange above and turn yellow towards the mouth. The tips are tipped green. The flowers are on 10 to 12 millimeter long peduncles . They are 23 millimeters long and narrowed briefly at their base. Above the ovary , the flowers are slightly narrowed. They are widened towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the style protrude up to 1 millimeter from the flower.

genetics

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

Systematics, distribution and endangerment

Aloe bakeri is common in Madagascar on shallow soils and in cracks on rocky hills at heights of 40 meters.

The first description by George Francis Scott-Elliot was published in 1891. A nomenclature synonym is Guillauminia bakeri (Scott-Elliot) PVHeath (1994).

Aloe bakeri is listed in Appendix I of the Washington Convention on Endangered Species .

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. 532 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe Bakeri . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 113 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 12.
^ GF Scott Elliot: New and little known Madagascar plants In: Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany Volume 29, Number 197, 1891, p. 60 ( online ).
↑ Appendices I, II and III valid from April 3, 2012 . (accessed on August 10, 2012).

Web links

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 12.

[2] GF Scott Elliot: New and little known Madagascar plants In: Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany Volume 29, Number 197, 1891, p. 60 ( online ).

[3] Appendices I, II and III valid from April 3, 2012 . (accessed on August 10, 2012).