Aloe lindenii
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Aloe lindenii is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The epithet lindenii honors the American chemist and succulent lover Seymour Linden (1921–2005).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe lindenii grows easily and without trunk. The approximately 20 lanceolate, narrowed leaves form a dense rosette . The bluish gray, strikingly lined leaf blade is 40 to 45 centimeters long and 7 to 8 centimeters wide. Occasionally it is covered with scattered light spots. The stinging, deltoid teeth on the cartilaginous leaf margin are 1 to 2 millimeters long and 15 to 22 millimeters and more apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence is usually simple or has one or two branches. It reaches a length of up to 70 centimeters. The rather dense, conical-cylindrical grapes are 18 to 22 centimeters long. The deltoid narrowed bracts have a length of 15 millimeters and are 4 millimeters wide. The light red flowers are on 3 to 6 millimeter long peduncles . They are 30 millimeters long and very short at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 5 millimeters. Above it they are hardly narrowed and finally widened to the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of up to 7 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe lindenii is common in Somalia on plaster and limestone hills at heights of around 200 meters.
The first description by John Jacob Lavranos was published in 1997.
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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. 268 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe lindenii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 152-153 .
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. 95.
- ^ John J. Lavranos: Aloe lindenii, a new species from Somalia . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 69, Number 3, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1997, pp. 149-151.