Aloe kilifiensis
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Aloe kilifiensis is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet kilifiensis refers to the occurrence of the species near Kilifi in Kenya.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe kilifiensis grows without a stem or with a short stem, is solitary or sprouting and then forms small groups. Your shoots are up to 30 centimeters long. The approximately 15 lanceolate narrowed leaves form rosettes . The cloudy green leaf blade is 27 inches long and 7 inches wide. As a rule, there are many scattered, elliptical or H-shaped, white spots on it. The leaf surface is smooth, the leaf sap is yellow. The brown, horny teeth on the leaf margin are 3 millimeters long and 4 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence consists of four to six branches and reaches a length of up to 57 centimeters. The rather heady grapes are 8 inches long and just as wide. They consist of about 20 flowers. The triangular bracts have a length of 14 millimeters and are 6 millimeters wide. The deep wine-red flowers are on 16 millimeter long flower stalks . They are 30 millimeters long and trimmed at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 10 millimeters, above they are abruptly narrowed to 6 millimeters and then widened to 9 millimeters. Your tepals are not fused together over a length of 11 millimeters. The stamens and the style protrude somewhat out of the flower.
Systematics, distribution and endangerment
Aloe kilifiensis is distributed in the coastal areas from southeast Kenya to northeast Tanzania along the coast on coral rocks and sandy soils in dry bushes at heights of 3 to 380 meters.
The first description by Hugh Basil Christian was published in 1942.
Aloe kilifiensis is in the Red List of Threatened Species of IUCN as " Endangered (EN) ," d. H. classified as endangered.
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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. 190 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe kilifiensis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 150 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 126.
- ^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 8, number 2, Kirstenbosch 1942, pp. 169–170, plate 3.
- ↑ Aloe kilifiensis in the Red List of Threatened Species of the IUCN 2012. Posted by: the Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests CEPF Plant Assessment Project Participants, 2009. Accessed October 17, 2012th
Web links
- Photos of Aloe kilifiensis at www.arkive.org