Aloe ikiorum
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Aloe ikiorum is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet ikiorum refers to the ethnic group of the Ik who live at the place where the species was found.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe ikiorum grows individually and as a trunk. The initially lying and then upright, rarely branched trunk reached a length of 20 to 30 centimeters and is 5 to 7 centimeters thick. The 12 to 24 spread, lanceolate leaves form a dense rosette . The leaf blade is 8 to 40 inches long, 4 to 6 inches wide and 0.3 to 0.5 inches thick. The upper side of the leaf is bright green, the underside pale gray-green. The leaf surface is smooth. There are numerous indistinct white-greenish longitudinal lines on it. The soft, hook-shaped, brown-tipped teeth on the whitish leaf margin are about 2 millimeters long and 4 to 16 millimeters apart. The pale yellow leaf sap dries yellowish brown.
Inflorescences and flowers
The upright inflorescence has four to five widely spread branches and reaches a length of 85 to 155 centimeters. The upright, dense, heady grapes are 3 to 8 inches long. The linear-lanceolate bracts have a length of about 18 millimeters and are 2 millimeters wide. The cylindrical, curved, bare, rose-reddish-red flowers fade to pale yellow towards their mouth and stand on approximately 10 to 13 millimeter long pedicels . They are about 24 millimeters long. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 6 millimeters. Above that they are slightly narrowed to 4 millimeters and finally widened to the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 8 to 10 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe ikiorum is common among hyparrhenia species in the Kaabong district of Uganda .
The first description by Maurizio Dioli and Gilfrid Powys was published in 2012.
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- Maurizio Dioli: Aloe ikiorum: A new species from Uganda . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 83, number 6, 2011, pp. 270-274 ( doi: 10.2985 / 0007-9367-83.6.270 ).