Aloe deserti

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

Aloe deserti is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet deserti comes from Latin and means 'from the desert'.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe deserti grows trunk-forming and is sparsely branched. Upright trunks are up to 75 inches long and 4 to 5 inches wide. If they are lying down, they can reach a length of up to 100 centimeters. The approximately 16 to 20 lanceolate and pointed leaves form loose rosettes . The leaves on the top 20 to 30 centimeters of the trunks are persistent. The cloudy green leaf blade has a brownish sheen. It is 40 to 45 inches long and 7 to 8 inches wide. There are elliptical, white spots on the slightly rough surface of the leaves, but these can also be missing. The piercing, light brown teeth on the leaf margin are 2 to 4 millimeters long and 10 to 15 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

Inflorescence and single flowers

The inflorescence consists of three to eight branches and is 120 to 150 centimeters long. The rather loose, cylindrical to slightly tapered grapes are up to 25 centimeters long and 7 centimeters wide. The grapes are initially limp and drooping at the time of bud. As the flowers open, they become stiff and erect. The egg-shaped, pointed bracts are 12 to 15 millimeters long and 6 to 8 millimeters wide. The cloudy pink-red, frosted flowers, which are lighter at their mouth, are on 7 to 10 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 28 to 35 millimeters long and narrowed briefly at their base. At the level of the ovary they have a diameter of 8 millimeters. They are slightly narrowed above this and finally widened towards their mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 14 to 18 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand out 3 to 4 millimeters from the flower.

Systematics, distribution and endangerment

Aloe deserti is widespread in Kenya and Tanzania on sandy-stony soils in the grass or on the edge of thickets at altitudes of 550 to 1825 meters.

The first description by Alwin Berger was published in 1905.

Aloe deserti is in the endangered Red List species the IUCN as " Near Threatened (NT) ", d. H. low risk, classified.

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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. 613 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe deserti . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 131 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 65.
↑ Alwin Berger: About the systematic structure of the genus Aloe . In: Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and plant geography . Volume 36, Number 1, 1905, p. 61 ( online ).
↑ Aloe deserti in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2012. Posted by: the Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests CEPF Plant Assessment Project Participants, 2009. Accessed August 13, 2012th

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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. 65.

[2] Alwin Berger: About the systematic structure of the genus Aloe . In: Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and plant geography . Volume 36, Number 1, 1905, p. 61 ( online ).

[3] Aloe deserti in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2012. Posted by: the Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests CEPF Plant Assessment Project Participants, 2009. Accessed August 13, 2012th