Aloe cremnophila

Aloe cremnophila
	Aloe cremnophila
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe cremnophila
Scientific name
	Aloe cremnophila
	Reynolds & PROBally

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Aloe cremnophila is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet cremnophila is derived from the Greek words kremnos for 'cliff' and philos for 'friend' and refers to the habitat of the species.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe cremnophila grows trunk-forming and branched from the base. The hanging trunks are 10 to 20 inches long and 0.8 to 1 inch wide. The six to eight lanceolate long, pointed leaves form rosettes . The gray-green leaf blade is 10 inches long and 2 inches wide. The piercing, light brown teeth on the leaf margin are 2 millimeters long and 3 to 5 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The simple inflorescence is 25 to 30 centimeters long. Its base is directed downwards, above it it is arching-ascending. The loose, cylindrical-conical grapes are 10 to 12 inches long and 5.5 inches wide. The egg-shaped-pointed bracts have a length of 10 millimeters and are 5 millimeters wide. The scarlet flowers are yellowish green at their mouth. They stand on 10 to 12 millimeter long flower stalks . The very slightly club-shaped flowers are 25 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 5 millimeters. At first they are very slightly narrowed and finally expanded. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 5 millimeters. The stamens and the style protrude up to 2 millimeters from the flower.

genetics

The number of chromosomes is . ${\ displaystyle 2n = 28}$

Systematics and distribution

Aloe cremnophila is common in Somalia on the walls of limestone cliffs at altitudes from 1980 to 2130 meters.

The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds and Peter René Oscar Bally was published in 1961.

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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. 473 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe cremnophila . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 128-129 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 56.
^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 27, Number 2, 1961, pp. 77-79.

Web links

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 56.

[2] Journal of South African Botany . Volume 27, Number 2, 1961, pp. 77-79.