Aloe ketabrowniorum
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Aloe ketabrowniorum is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet ketabrowniorum honors Ken DF Brown (* 1957) and his wife Anne E. Brown (* 1964).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe ketabrowniorum grows trunk-forming and branches from the base. The prostrate shoots are up to 30 centimeters long. The six to ten triangular to slightly sickle-shaped leaves form rosettes . The medium green, often reddish tinged leaf blade is up to 38 centimeters long and 4.5 centimeters wide. A few elliptical whitish spots are scattered on it. The leaf surface is smooth. The firm, white or red-tipped, occasionally backward-facing teeth on the whitish, translucent edge of the leaf are 1 millimeter long and 5 to 10 millimeters apart. The light yellow leaf sap dries brown.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence consists of seven to eight branches and reaches a length of up to 70 centimeters. The loose grapes are 3 to 14 centimeters long and consist of almost one-sided flowers. The triangular bracts have a length of 4 millimeters and are 2 millimeters wide. The light red flowers , which fade towards the tips, have white tips with a light red central stripe. They stand on 5 millimeter long flower stalks . The flowers are 25 to 28 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 8 to 10 millimeters. Above this they are narrowed to 6 to 7 millimeters and finally widened to the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 9 to 12 millimeters. The stamens and the style protrude 5 to 6 millimeters from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe ketabrowniorum is common in northern Kenya in a small area on rocky slopes at an altitude of about 760 meters.
The first description by Leonard Eric Newton was published in 1994.
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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. 445 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe ketabrowniorum . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 149 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gideon F. Smith, Colin C. Walker, Estrela Figueiredo: What's in a name: epithets in Aloe L. (Asphodelaceae) and what to call the next new species . In: Bradleya . Volume 28, 2010, p. 94.
- ^ British Cactus & Succulent Journal . Volume 12, Number 2, 1994, pp. 50-51.
Web links
- Herbarium evidence of Aloe ketabrowniorum