Aloe glabrescens

Aloe glabrescens
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe glabrescens
Scientific name
	Aloe glabrescens
	( Reynolds & Probally ) S.Carter & Brandham

Aloe glabrescens is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet glabrescens comes from Latin , means 'balding' and refers to the balding surface of the perianth.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe glabrescens grows without a trunk or trunk-forming, sprouts and forms small to large groups. The prostrate trunks have a length of up to 50 centimeters. The 18 to 24 triangular leaves form dense rosettes . The gray-green, reddish tinged leaf blade is 40 to 50 centimeters long and 10 to 12 centimeters wide. The piercing, reddish brown teeth on the leaf margin are 3 millimeters long and 10 to 20 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence consists of three to four branches and reaches a length of 75 to 100 centimeters. The cylindrical, pointed grapes are 25 centimeters long and 5 to 6 centimeters wide. The ovate-pointed bracts are 9 millimeters long and 4 millimeters wide. The strawberry-red, bare or, when enlarged, tiny downy-haired flowers are lighter to greenish at their mouth and are attached to 5 millimeter long flower stalks . The flowers are 32 millimeters long and rounded at their base. Above the ovary they are very slightly narrowed. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 9 millimeters. The stamens and the style stick out briefly from the flower.

genetics

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

Systematics and distribution

Aloe glabrescens is common in northeast Somalia on dry plains and gypsum hills at altitudes of 800 to 1000 meters.

The first description as Aloe rigens var. Glabrescens by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds and Peter René Oscar Bally was published in 1958. Susan Carter and Peter Edward Brandham put the species in the genus Aloe in 1983 .

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. 452 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe glabrescens . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 140 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 94.
^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 24, Kirstenbosch 1958, p. 179.
^ Susan Carter, Peter Brandham: New species of Aloe from Somalia . In: Bradleya . Volume 1, 1983, pp. 23-24.

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 94.

[2] Journal of South African Botany . Volume 24, Kirstenbosch 1958, p. 179.

[3] Susan Carter, Peter Brandham: New species of Aloe from Somalia . In: Bradleya . Volume 1, 1983, pp. 23-24.