Aloe labworana

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

Aloe labworana is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet labworana refers to the occurrence of the species on the Labwor Hills in Uganda.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe labworana usually grows stemless, sprouts or forms groups. The 12 to 16 lanceolate, narrowed leaves form a dense rosette . The bluish green, gray frosted leaf blade is 60 to 80 centimeters long and 7 to 8 centimeters wide. It is covered with many light greenish, lens-shaped spots. The piercing, reddish-tipped teeth on the leaf margin are 5 to 6 millimeters long and 12 to 20 millimeters apart. The leaf juice dries yellowish.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence has ten to twelve branches and reaches a length of up to 100 centimeters. The lower branches are branched again. The rather dense, cylindrical, slightly conical grapes are 8 to 9 inches long and 5 inches wide. The egg-shaped-pointed bracts have a length of about 2 millimeters. The yellow flowers are on 10 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 28 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers are 6 to 7 millimeters in diameter. Above this they are very slightly narrowed and finally slightly expanded towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 12 millimeters. The stamens and the style stick out about 4 millimeters from the flower.

genetics

The number of chromosomes is . ${\ displaystyle 2n = 14}$

Systematics and distribution

Aloe labworana is common in the north of Uganda and in the south of Sudan on rock deposits at altitudes of 1300 to 1500 meters.

The first description as Aloe schweinfurthii var. Labworana by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1956. Susan Carter elevated the variety to the rank of a species in 1994.

proof

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. 463 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe labworana . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 150-151 .

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.
^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 22, number 3, Kirstenbosch 1956, p. 140.
^ Susan Carter: Flora of Tropical East Africa. Aloaceae . 1994, p. 28.

[1] 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.

[2] Journal of South African Botany . Volume 22, number 3, Kirstenbosch 1956, p. 140.

[3] Susan Carter: Flora of Tropical East Africa. Aloaceae . 1994, p. 28.