Aloe calidophila
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Aloe calidophila is a plant of the genus Aloe in the subfamily of asphodeloideae (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet thionanthum is derived from the Latin word calidus for 'hot' and the Greek word philos for 'friend' and refers to the areas preferred by the species.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe calidophila grows trunk-forming, branching and forms small to large dense groups. Their shoots are short or up to 2 meters long and then prostrate with ascending tips. The approximately 20 triangular, deeply rutted and strongly curved leaves are densely packed at the shoot tips. The cloudy olive-green leaf blade is 80 centimeters long and 16 centimeters wide. The cloudy white, reddish brown tipped teeth on the leaf edge are 4 to 5 millimeters long and 20 to 25 millimeters apart. The dry leaf sap is deep brown.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence consists of about twelve branches and reaches a length of 1 to 1.3 meters. The dense, conical-cylindrical grapes are 10 to 13 inches long and 5 inches wide. The egg-shaped pointed bracts have a length of 3 to 4 millimeters and are 2 millimeters wide. The club-shaped, scarlet- red flowers that turn orange at their mouths are on 10 millimeter long flower stalks . The flowers are 22 millimeters long and briefly narrowed at their base. At the level of the ovary , they have a diameter of 6 millimeters. They are expanded beyond that. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 11 millimeters. The stamens and the style stick out about 3 millimeters from the flower.
genetics
The number of chromosomes is .
Systematics and distribution
Aloe calidophila is common in Ethiopia and Kenya on hot dry plains at altitudes of 1280 to 1460 meters.
The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1954.
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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. 626 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe calidophila . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 120 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 38.
- ^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 20, Number 1, 1954, pp. 26-28.