Aloe kedongensis

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

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Aloe kedongensis is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). Thespecific epithet kedongensis refers to the occurrence of the species in the Kedong Valley in Kenya.

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Vegetative characteristics

Aloe kedongensis grows trunk-forming, branches at or near the base and forms thickets. The upright or spread out, up to 4 meters long trunks have a diameter of 3 to 7 centimeters. The lanceolate leaves form rosettes and are persistent to 30 to 60 centimeters below the top of the trunk. Their gray-green to yellowish green leaf blades are 30 centimeters long and 4 centimeters wide. The leaf surface is smooth. The reddish brown tipped teeth on the leaf margin are 2 to 3 millimeters long and 10 to 15 millimeters apart. The leaf sap is yellowish when dry.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence consists of two to four branches and is up to 75 centimeters long. The dense, cylindrical grapes are 10 to 20 inches long and 8 inches wide. The egg-shaped, pointed bracts are 5 millimeters long and just as wide. The scarlet flowers are on 20 to 25 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 35 millimeters long and briefly narrowed at their base. At the level of the ovary , they have a diameter of 7 millimeters. They are slightly narrowed above this and then slightly widened towards their mouth. Your outer tepals are fused together over a length of 14 millimeters. The stamens and the style stick out about 3 millimeters from the flower.

genetics

The number of chromosomes is . ${\ displaystyle 2n = 28}$

Systematics and distribution

Aloe kedongensis is widespread in Kenya in dense bush, mostly on rocky ground at altitudes of 1825 to 2300 meters. The distribution area extends in the Great Rift Valley from Naivasha to Nakuru .

The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1953. A synonym is aloe nyeriensis subsp. kedongensis (Reynolds) S. Carter (1980).

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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. 563 .
Leonard E. Newton: Aloe kedongensis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 149 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 125.
↑ 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. 563 .
^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 19, Number 1, 1953, pp. 4-6.

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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. 125.

[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. 563 .

[3] Journal of South African Botany . Volume 19, Number 1, 1953, pp. 4-6.