Aloe brandhamii
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Aloe brandhamii is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet brandhamii honors the British plant geneticist Peter Edward Brandham (* 1937).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe brandhamii grows without a trunk, sprouts and forms dense clumps. The ascending trunk of old plants reaches a length of up to 1 meter. The lanceolate leaves form a dense rosette . The cloudy, dark green leaf blade often has a bronze-colored glow. It is 50 to 80 centimeters long and 10 to 20 centimeters wide. The leaf surface is smooth. The piercing, brown-tipped teeth on the leaf margin are 2 to 3 millimeters long and 10 to 20 millimeters apart. The leaf sap is dry yellow.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence has up to 25 branches and reaches a length of 1.5 to 2 meters. The lower branches are occasionally also branched. The loose grapes are 15 to 30 centimeters long and consist of single-sided flowers . The egg-shaped bracts have a length of 12 to 15 millimeters and are 5 to 7 millimeters wide. The coral-pink flowers are on 5 to 9 millimeter long flower stalks . They are tiny speckled white and lighter at their mouth. The flowers are 30 to 40 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , they have a diameter of 7 to 8 millimeters. They are hardly narrowed beyond that. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of about 10 to 13 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand out 3 to 4 millimeters from the flower.
Systematics, distribution and endangerment
Aloe brandhamii is common in Tanzania in light shade on rocky slopes at altitudes of 750 to 1200 meters.
The first description by Susan Carter was published in 1994.
Aloe brandhamii is in the endangered Red List species the IUCN as " Endangered (EN) ," d. H. classified as 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. 382 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe brandhamii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 117 .
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.
- ^ Susan Carter: Flora of Tropical East Africa. Aloaceae . 1994, pp. 32-33.
- ↑ Aloe brandhamii in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2012. Posted by: the Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests CEPF Plant Assessment Project Participants, 2009. Retrieved on August 9, 2012th
Web links
- Photo of Aloe brandhamii
