Aloe brachystachys

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

inflorescence

Aloe brachystachys is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet brachystachys is derived from the Greek words brachys for 'short' and stachys for 'ear' and refers to the inflorescence of the species.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe brachystachys grows solitary or sprouting and forming small groups. It is stemless or has a short, prostrate trunk when old. The 20 to 30 lanceolate, pointed leaves form a rosette . The yellowish green, in the sun reddish brown leaf blade is 30 to 60 centimeters long and 4 to 8 centimeters wide. The leaf surface is striped lengthways. The brown, pointed, curved teeth on the leaf margin are 1 to 3 millimeters long and 10 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The simple inflorescence - sometimes a short branch is present - reaches a length of 40 to 100 centimeters. The dense, cylindrical grapes are 15 to 20 centimeters long. The red, egg-shaped, fleshy bracts have a length of 12 to 14 millimeters and are 5 to 10 millimeters wide. They are dry-skinned in old age and bricky in the bud stage. The club-shaped, bright orange-red, at the mouth pale yellow flowers are on 16 to 22 millimeter long peduncles . They are 25 to 32 millimeters long and narrowed at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers are 4 to 5 millimeters in diameter. They are not narrowed above this and are expanded to 7 to 8 millimeters towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 8 to 10 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand 2 to 4 millimeters out from the flower.

Systematics, distribution and endangerment

Aloe brachystachys is widespread in Tanzania on rock deposits in mountain bushland and on the edge of the cloud forest at altitudes of around 2000 meters.

The first description by John Gilbert Baker was published in 1895. Synonyms are Aloe lastii Baker (1901) and Aloe schliebenii Lavranos (1970).

Aloe brachystachys is in the endangered Red List species the IUCN as " Vulnerable (VU) ", d. H. classified endangered.

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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. 283 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe brachystachys . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 116 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 30.
^ Curtis's Botanical Magazine . Volume 121, 1895, plate 7399 ( online ).
↑ Aloe brachystachys in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2012. Posted by: the Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests CEPF Plant Assessment Project Participants, 2009. Accessed August 8, 2012 Design.

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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. 30.

[2] Curtis's Botanical Magazine . Volume 121, 1895, plate 7399 ( online ).

[3] Aloe brachystachys in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2012. Posted by: the Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests CEPF Plant Assessment Project Participants, 2009. Accessed August 8, 2012 Design.