Aloe breviscapa
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Aloe breviscapa is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet breviscapa is derived from the Latin words brevis for 'short' and scapus for 'shaft' and refers to the short inflorescence of the species.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe breviscapa grows trunk-forming, sprouts and forms small to large, dense clumps. The trunk is short or up to 50 centimeters long. It is prostrate and with age reaches a length of up to 100 centimeters. The approximately 24 lanceolate, pointed leaves form dense rosettes . The bluish green, reddish tinged leaf blade is 30 to 35 centimeters long and 8 to 10 centimeters wide. The teeth on the leaf margin are missing or there are a few, 1 to 2 millimeters long, blunt teeth in the bottom quarter that are 10 millimeters apart. The leaf sap is dry yellow.
Inflorescences and flowers
The arching, rising inflorescence consists of four to eight branches and reaches a length of about 50 centimeters. The loose, cylindrical grapes are 20 to 25 inches long and 6 inches wide. The egg-shaped-pointed bracts have a length of 6 millimeters and are 3 millimeters wide. The scarlet, frosted flowers are greenish at their mouth. They stand on 10 to 14 millimeter long flower stalks . The flowers are 26 to 30 millimeters long and narrowed briefly at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 8 millimeters. They are slightly narrowed above this. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 10 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand 2 to 4 millimeters out from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe breviscapa is widespread in Somalia on dry plaster plains at altitudes of around 1400 meters.
The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds and Peter René Oscar Bally was published in 1958.
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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. 443 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe breviscapa . 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. 32.
- ^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 24, number 4, Kirstenbosch 1958, pp. 176-177.