Aloe macleayi
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Aloe macleayi is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet macleayi honors the botanist Kenneth Noel Grant Macleay .
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe macleayi grows easily and without trunk. The approximately 24 lanceolate, narrowed leaves form a dense rosette . The deep green to olive green, indistinctly lined leaf blade is up to 50 centimeters long and 12 centimeters wide. The firm, white, hooked teeth on the yellowish white leaf margin are 4 millimeters long and 8 to 15 millimeters apart. The leaf juice dries yellow.
Inflorescences and flowers
The slightly crooked inflorescence has about nine branches and reaches a length of 90 centimeters. The upright, loose, cylindrical-conical grapes are 22 centimeters long and 5.5 centimeters wide. The egg-shaped-pointed, light brown bracts have a length of 3 millimeters and are 4 millimeters wide. The coral-red flowers at the base turn orange to yellowish at the mouth and stand on 10 millimeter long flower stalks . They are 36 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers are 7 millimeters in diameter. They are very slightly narrowed above this. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the pen stand 2 to 4 millimeters out from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe macleayi is common in Sudan on grasslands at altitudes of 1500 to 2500 meters.
The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1955.
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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. 348 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe macleayi . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 154 .