Aloe heliderana
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Aloe heliderana is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet heliderana refers to the occurrence of the species at Helidera in Somalia.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe heliderana grows trunk-forming and sparsely branched from the base. The upright trunk reaches a length of up to 100 centimeters and is 4 centimeters thick. It is covered with the dry bases of dead leaves. The approximately 20 deltoid-pointed leaves form rosettes . The gray-green leaf blade is about 20 inches long and 6 inches wide. There are few or many white spots on it. The white teeth on the white, cartilaginous leaf margin are up to 2 millimeters long and 5 to 10 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence consists of about eight branches and reaches a length of up to 60 centimeters. The lower branches are branched again. The loose, heady or short cylindrical grapes sometimes consist of slightly one-sided flowers. The brownish, deltoid-pointed, fragile bracts have a length of 3 to 5 millimeters. The red or yellow flowers are on 7 millimeter long flower stalks . The flowers are 20 to 22 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers are 5 to 6 millimeters in diameter. Above this they are slightly narrowed and finally widened again to 5 to 6 millimeters at the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 5 to 7 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand out from 2 to 6 millimeters from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe heliderana is common in northeastern Zimbabwe on limestone hills at altitudes of around 500 meters.
The first description by John Jacob Lavranos was published in 1973.
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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. 618 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe heliderana . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 144 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 105.
- ^ John J. Lavranos: Three new Aloes from Somalia . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 45, Number 3, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1973, pp. 114-115.