Aloe jucunda
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Aloe jucunda is a type of plant from the genus Aloe within the subfamily of the Affodil family (Asphodeloideae). It is used as an ornamental plant.
description
Aloe jucunda is a perennial succulent plant that reaches a maximum height of about 35 cm. A rosette of leaves with a diameter of about 8 cm sits on the short trunk. The succulent leaves are dark green, up to 4 cm long and 2 to 5 cm wide. They have numerous translucent spots and their edge is covered with a row of about 2 mm long teeth.
The inflorescence stem has a length of about 35 cm. The tubular flowers have pale pink to bright pink colored bracts .
Systematics, distribution and endangerment
Aloe jucunda colonizes dry forests and is endemic to the Gaan Libah Conservation Area in northern Somalia . It grows on limestone at altitudes of 1060 to 1680 meters. It was first described in 1953 by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds in Journal of South African Botany , Kirstenbosch, Volume 19, pp. 21-23.
Aloe jucunda is listed in Appendix II of the Washington Convention on Endangered Species .
swell
- Marshall Cavendish Corporation: Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World . Marshall Cavendish, 2001, ISBN 978-0-7614-7194-3 .
- Maurizio Sajeva, Mariangela Costanzo: Succulents: The Illustrated Dictionary . Timber Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-88192-398-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aloe and Pachypodium species in CITES. (English; PDF; 791 kB)
