Aloe hemmingii

Aloe hemmingii
	Aloe hemmingii
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe hemmingii
Scientific name
	Aloe hemmingii
	Reynolds & PROBally

Aloe hemmingii is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet hemmingii honors Christopher Francis Hemming (* 1926) from the Desert Locust Survey .

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe hemmingii grows without a stem or with a very short stem, individually or in small groups. The approximately ten egg-shaped or lanceolate narrowed leaves form dense rosettes . Their brownish green leaf blades are 10 to 12 inches long and 3 to 3.5 inches wide. There are many cloudy white, elongated streaks on the upper side of the leaf. On the underside of the leaf, the streaks are smaller and more numerous. The piercing, whitish and brown-tipped teeth on the leaf margin are 2 millimeters long and 4 to 6 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The simple inflorescence is 30 to 35 centimeters long. The loose, cylindrical grapes are 10 to 15 inches long and 5 inches wide. They consist of about 18 flowers . The egg-shaped pointed bracts have a length of 8 millimeters and are 3 millimeters wide. The flamingor pink or light pink, finely spotted flowers are on 6 to 8 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 24 millimeters long and truncated at their base. At the level of the ovary they have a diameter of 8 millimeters. They are hardly narrowed beyond that. Your outer tepals are slightly spread out and not grown together over a length of 7 millimeters. The stamens and the style stick out slightly from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe hemmingii is distributed along the mountain range in northwest Somalia on stony soils with sparse bushes at altitudes of about 1200 meters.

The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds and Peter René Oscar Bally was published in 1964.

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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. 215 .
Leonard E. Newton: Aloe helenae . 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. 106.
↑ 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. 215 .
^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 30, Number 4, 1964, pp. 221-222.

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 106.

[2] 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. 215 .

[3] Journal of South African Botany . Volume 30, Number 4, 1964, pp. 221-222.