Aloe citrina

Aloe citrina
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe citrina
Scientific name
	Aloe citrina
	S. Carter & Brandham

Aloe citrina is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet citrina comes from Latin , means 'lemon yellow' and refers to the lemon yellow flowers of the species.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe citrina grows without a trunk, simply or with a few offshoots. The linearly tapering leaves form rosettes . The glauke leaf blade is up to 60 centimeters long and 15 centimeters wide. There are numerous elongated white spots on the leaf surface. The green, brown-tipped teeth on the leaf margin are 1.5 millimeters long and 15 to 35 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence consists of two to six branches and reaches a length of up to 2 meters. The more or less dense, cylindrically pointed grapes are 25 to 50 centimeters long and 5 centimeters wide. The egg-shaped-pointed, downy-haired bracts have a length of up to 12 millimeters and are 4 millimeters wide. The light lemon yellow, short felty flowers are up to 10 millimeters long, downy-haired pedicels . The flowers are 28 to 35 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 6 millimeters. They are slightly narrowed above this and finally widened to 8 millimeters towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 18 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.

genetics

The number of chromosomes is . ${\ displaystyle 2n = 14}$

Systematics and distribution

Aloe citrina is widespread in the northeast of Kenya , in the southeast of Ethiopia and in the south of Somalia on sandy plains with thorn bush at heights of 90 to 990 meters.

The first description by Susan Carter and Peter Edward Brandham was published in 1983.

proof

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. 372 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe Citrina . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 125 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 48.
^ Susan Carter, Peter Brandham: New species of Aloe from Somalia . In: Bradleya . Volume 1, 1983, pp. 21-23.

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 48.

[2] Susan Carter, Peter Brandham: New species of Aloe from Somalia . In: Bradleya . Volume 1, 1983, pp. 21-23.