Aloe dawei

Aloe dawei
	Aloe dawei
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe dawei
Scientific name
	Aloe dawei
	A. Berger

Aloe dawei is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet dawei honors Morley Thomas Dawe (1880–1943), British forester and curator of the Entebbe Botanical Garden.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe dawei grows trunk-forming and branched. The upright or prostrate trunks reach a length of up to 2 meters and a diameter of 6 to 8 centimeters. They are covered with the remains of dead leaves. The 16 to 20 lanceolate, pointed leaves form loose rosettes . They are persistent over a length of 30 centimeters below the tip of the shoot. The olive-green to dark green, occasionally reddish tinged leaf blade is 40 to 60 centimeters long and 6 to 9 centimeters wide. There are cloudy white spots on young shoots. The piercing, reddish-brown teeth on the leaf margin are 2 to 4 millimeters long and 10 to 15 millimeters apart. The leaf sap is dry yellow.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence consists of three to eight branches and reaches a length of 60 to 90 centimeters. The rather dense, broad, cylindrical-conical grapes are 8 to 20 inches long and 8 inches wide. The egg-shaped, pointed bracts are 3 to 4 millimeters long and 3 to 5 millimeters wide. The scarlet red flowers are lighter at their mouth and stand on 10 to 15 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 33 to 35 millimeters long and narrowed briefly at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 8 millimeters. They are very slightly narrowed above this. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 11 to 12 millimeters. The stamens and the style stick out about 4 millimeters from the flower.

genetics

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

Systematics and distribution

Aloe dawei is common in Kenya , Rwanda , Uganda and Zaire on grasslands and in thickets at heights of 800 to 1525 meters.

The first description by Alwin Berger was published in 1906. Synonyms are Aloe beniensis De Wild. (1921) and Aloe pole-evansii Christian (1940).

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. 635 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe dawei . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 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. 61.
^ Note sheet of the royal. Botanical Garden and Museum in Berlin . Volume 4, 1906, p. 246 ( online ).

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 61.

[2] Note sheet of the royal. Botanical Garden and Museum in Berlin . Volume 4, 1906, p. 246 ( online ).