Aloe Clarkei
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Aloe clarkei is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet clarkei honors the British management consultant Paul Clarke, who discovered the species.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe clarkei grows trunk-forming, branches out from the base and forms dense clumps. The initially upright trunks become leaning over time and reach a length of up to about 30 centimeters. The lanceolate leaves form loose rosettes . The green, slightly waxy leaf blade is up to 18 centimeters long and 3 centimeters wide. On it are scattered elongated whitish spots that occasionally form dense, irregular transverse bands. On the underside, the spots are more numerous. The tip of the leaf is pointed. The piercing, green, white-tipped teeth on the leaf margin are 3 millimeters long and 6 to 9 millimeters apart. They are hooked and point to the tip of the leaf. The green, whitish longitudinally striped leaf sheaths are 1 to 1.5 centimeters long.
Inflorescences and flowers
The upwardly curved inflorescence consists of two to five branches and reaches a length of up to 52 centimeters. The upright, loose grapes are cylindrical. Terminal grapes are up to 10 to 17 inches long and 6 inches wide. The rest are 4 to 6 inches long. The ovate-pointed bracts have a length of 6 millimeters and are 3 millimeters wide. The yellow or red, cylindrical flowers are up to 15 millimeters long peduncles . The flowers are 25 to 26 millimeters long. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 6 millimeters. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 10 to 12 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand out 2 to 5 millimeters from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe clarkei is widespread in Ethiopia in the light shade of small clearings in the mountain forest at heights of around 1980. The species is only known from the locality of the type.
The first description by Leonard Eric Newton was published in 2003.
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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. 480 .
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.
- ^ Leonard E. Newton: A new species of Aloe on the Ethiopia-Sudan Border . In: Haseltonia . Number 9, 2003, pp. 14-16.