Aloe deinacantha

Aloe deinacantha
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe deinacantha
Scientific name
	Aloe deinacantha
	TAMcCoy , Rakouth & Lavranos

Aloe deinacantha is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet deinacantha is derived from the Greek words deinos for 'terrible' and akantha for 'thorn' and refers to the strong teeth on the edge of the leaf.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe deinacantha grows trunk-forming, sprouts from the base and forms bushes. The ascending trunk reaches a length of up to 175 centimeters and is 3 centimeters thick. It is covered with dry leaves. The twelve to 16 ascending, sword-shaped leaves form rosettes . The light green leaf blade is up to 50 inches long and 6 inches wide. The pink-colored, white-pointed teeth on the leaf margin are 4 millimeters long and 10 to 15 millimeters apart. The leaf sap is yellow and yellow drying.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence consists of five to seven branches and reaches a length of up to 70 centimeters. The loose, cylindrical-pointed grapes are up to 30 centimeters long. The inverted egg-shaped bracts are 1 to 2 millimeters long. The coral-red, yellow-tipped flowers stand on reddish-green, 5-millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 25 millimeters long. At the level of the ovary , the flowers are 4 to 5 millimeters in diameter. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the pen stand out from the flower to 5 millimeters.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe deinacantha is common in Madagascar .

The first description by Thomas A. McCoy , Bakolimalala Rakouth and John Jacob Lavranos was published in 2008.

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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. 649 .
Tom McCoy, Bakolimalala Rakouth, John Lavranos: Aloe albostriata and Aloe deinacantha (Aloaceae) . In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 59, Number 2, 2008, pp. 43-46.

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. 90.
↑ Tom McCoy, Bakolimalala Rakouth, John Lavranos: Aloe albostriata and Aloe deinacantha (Aloaceae) . In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 59, Number 2, 2008, pp. 45-46.

Web links

Herbarium specimens of Aloe deinacantha

[1] 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. 90.

[2] Tom McCoy, Bakolimalala Rakouth, John Lavranos: Aloe albostriata and Aloe deinacantha (Aloaceae) . In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 59, Number 2, 2008, pp. 45-46.