Aloe flexilifolia
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Aloe flexilifolia is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet flexilifolia is derived from the Latin words flexilis for 'flexible' and -folius for 'leafed' and was chosen due to the appearance of the type specimen.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe flexilifolia grows trunk-forming, branches out richly from the base and forms groups with diameters of up to 2 meters. On deep soils, the trunks are erect or ascending, up to a meter long and 6 to 7 centimeters wide. On shallow soils and on overhanging rocky surfaces, they are creeping and hanging, up to 2 meters long and 5 centimeters wide. The sword-shaped, pointed leaves form rosettes and are persistent to 30 centimeters below the top of the trunk. Over time , they have turned back on hanging shoots and bent into a sickle shape. Their glaucous green, bluish tinged leaf blade is 50 centimeters long and 6 to 7 centimeters wide. The brownish teeth on the narrow, cartilaginous, light-colored leaf margin are 1 to 2 millimeters long and 10 to 20 millimeters apart. The leaf juice is brownish dry.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence, which is often slightly oblique or basal downward, consists of six to eight branches and is 50 to 65 centimeters long. The upright, fairly dense, cylindrical grapes are 12 inches long and 7 to 8 inches wide. The ovoid-deltoid bracts have a length of 5 to 6 millimeters and are 3 millimeters wide. The scarlet-red to brownish-red flowers , lighter at their mouth, are on 12 to 14 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 33 to 35 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , they have a diameter of 9 millimeters. They are slightly narrowed above this and then slightly widened towards their mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of up to 10 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand 2 to 4 millimeters out from the flower.
Systematics, distribution and endangerment
Aloe flexilifolia is common in Tanzania on rocky slopes and cliff areas at altitudes of 1000 to 1220 meters.
The first description by Hugh Basil Christian was published in 1942.
Aloe flexilifolia is in the endangered Red List species the IUCN as " Critically Endangered (CR) ", d. H. classified critically endangered.
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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. 511 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe flexilifolia . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 138 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 85.
- ^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 8, Number 2, 1942, pp. 167-169.
- ↑ Aloe flexilifolia 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 15, 2012th
Web links
- Photos of Aloe flexilifolia