Aloe eremophila

Aloe eremophila
Aloe eremophila inflorescence
Systematics
Monocots Order : Asparagales (Asparagales) Family : Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae) Subfamily : Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae) Genre : Aloes ( aloe ) Type : Aloe eremophila
Scientific name
Aloe eremophila
Lavranos

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

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe eremophila grows without a stem or with a short, prostrate stem, is usually simple and occasionally forms groups of up to six rosettes . The ten to 22 deltoid-pointed leaves form rosettes . The gray-green, brownish tinged leaf blade is 35 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide. The piercing, dark brown teeth on the leaf margin are 4 millimeters long and 10 to 15 millimeters apart. At the base of the leaf they are smaller and more crowded together.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence consists of three to five branches and reaches a length of 40 to 75 centimeters. The dense, conical-cylindrical grapes are up to 22 centimeters long and 5 centimeters wide. The deltoid bracts have a length of 12 millimeters and are 5 millimeters wide. The scarlet flowers are on 7 to 8 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 30 millimeters long and narrowed briefly at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 8 millimeters. They are slightly narrowed above this and not widened towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 14 millimeters. The stamens protrude 4 millimeters and the stylus protrudes 5 millimeters from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe eremophila is widespread in Yemen in the Hadramaut region on limestone plateaus at altitudes of around 1400 meters.

The first description by John Jacob Lavranos was published in 1965.

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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. 320 .
• Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe eremophila . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 135 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 77.
2. ^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 31, number 1, Kirstenbosch 1965, pp. 71-74.