Aloe gracilicaulis
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Aloe gracilicaulis is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet gracilicaulis is derived from the Latin words gracilis for 'slim' and caulis for 'trunk' and refers to the slender shoots of the species.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe gracilicaulis grows trunk-forming, is simple or branched from the base. The trunk reaches a length of up to 4 meters. At its base it is eight to ten centimeters thick. Above that, the diameter is about 6 centimeters. On the top 30 to 50 centimeters, the trunk is covered with the remains of dead leaves. The approximately 20 sword-shaped, pointed leaves form rosettes . The gray-green leaf blade is 50 to 60 inches long and 8 inches wide. The 1 millimeter wide, white leaf margin is cartilaginous. The blunt, white teeth on the leaf margin are 1 millimeter long and 2 to 10 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence consists of about ten branches and reaches a length of 60 centimeters. The lower branches are branched again. The rather dense, cylindrical grapes are 5 to 6 inches long and 5 inches wide. The ovoid-pointed bracts are 3 millimeters long and 2 millimeters wide. The yellow flowers are on 5 to 6 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 18 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 5 millimeters. Above that, they are slightly widened towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 12 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand out 3 to 5 millimeters from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe gracilicaulis is common in Somalia on dry scrubland at altitudes of 1100 to 1300 meters. The species is only known from a small area around the type locality.
The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds and Peter René Oscar Bally was published in 1958.
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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. 670 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe gracilicaulis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 141 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 97.
- ^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 24, number 4, Kirstenbosch 1958, pp. 184-186.