Aloe inamara
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Aloe inamara is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet inamara is derived from the Latin words in for 'not' and amarus for 'bitter' and refers to the non-bitter-tasting leaves of the species.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe inamara grows trunk-forming, is branched from the base, only sparsely above, and occasionally forms mats with a diameter of up to 3 meters. The hanging trunks are up to 2 meters long and 2 centimeters thick. They are covered with the remains of dead leaf bases. The approximately nine downward-pointing, sickle-shaped leaves form rosettes . The light yellowish green, brown with sun exposure lamina is 45 to 60 centimeters (often up to 90 cm) long and 4 to 5 centimeters wide. There are a few to many small, somewhat H-shaped, indistinct white spots on it. There are more spots on the underside, more or less arranged in transverse bands. The whitish, often brown-pointed teeth on the whitish or very light pink leaf edge are 0.3 to 1 millimeter long and 4 to 20 millimeters apart. The non-bitter leaf juice is yellow.
Inflorescences and flowers
The descending inflorescence is directed upwards towards the tip, it consists of four to six branches and reaches a length of 40 to 55 centimeters. The rather loose, cylindrical-conical grapes are up to 7.5 inches long and 7.5 inches wide. The triangular narrowed bracts have a length of 7.5 to 9 millimeters and are about 3 millimeters wide. The cloudy red, green-tipped flowers are on 22 to 27 millimeter long flower stalks . The flowers are 26 to 29 millimeters long and truncated at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 8 millimeters. Above this they are suddenly narrowed to about 7 millimeters and finally widened to about 6 millimeters towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 6.5 to 8 millimeters. The stamens and the style protrude up to 1 millimeter from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe inamara is common in Angola on almost vertical cliff surfaces. The species is only known from the locality of the type.
The first description by Leslie Charles Leach was published in 1971.
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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. 518 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe inamara . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 147 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 116.
- ^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 37, number 4, Kirstenbosch 1971, pp. 259-266.