Aloe cataractarum
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Aloe cataractarum is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet cataractarum comes from Latin , means 'waterfall' and refers to the occurrence of the species in the vicinity of waterfalls.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe cataractarum grows trunk-forming and branched and from the base. The hanging trunks reach a length of up to 50 centimeters and are 2.5 centimeters thick. The twelve to 15 sword-shaped, sickle-shaped, bent back leaves form rosettes at the top of the trunks . The dark green to reddish leaf blade is 35 inches long and 2.5 inches wide. There are a few white spots and a wax coating on it. The deltoid, white teeth on the leaf margin are 2 millimeters long and 4 to 5 millimeters apart. The leaf sap is light yellow. It dries dark yellow.
Inflorescences and flowers
The crooked inflorescence consists of up to ten branches. It reaches a length of up to 40 centimeters. The branches are often re-branched. The rather dense, horizontal grapes are up to 5 centimeters long and consist of single-sided flowers. The lanceolate, pointed, white bracts have a length of about 5 millimeters. The light red, cylindrical flowers are on 8 to 10 millimeter long, red flower stalks . The flowers are 20 to 25 millimeters long. At the level of the ovary , the flowers are 7 millimeters in diameter. Above it are slightly narrowed towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 8 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus protrude 2.5 to 3 mm from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe cataractarum is common in Tanzania on steep rock surfaces near a waterfall at heights of 1200 meters. The species is only known from the locality of the type.
The first description by Thomas A. McCoy and John Jacob Lavranos was published in 2007.
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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. 497 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gideon F. Smith, Colin C. Walker, Estrela Figueiredo: What's in a name: epithets in Aloe L. (Asphodelaceae) and what to call the next new species . In: Bradleya . Volume 28, 2010, p. 89.
- ^ Thomas McCoy, John Lavranos: Four interesting new species of Tanzanian Aloes . In: Aloe . Volume 44, Number 2, 2007, pp. 50-53.