Aloe macroclada
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Aloe macroclada is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet macroclada is derived from the Greek words makros for 'large' and klados for 'shoot' and refers to the size of the plants.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe macroclada grows easily and without a trunk. The approximately 36 sword-shaped, narrowed leaves form a dense rosette . The green leaf blade is 75 inches long and 15 inches wide. The piercing, orange-brown teeth on the leaf margin are 3 millimeters long and about 10 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence is simple or occasionally has a branch. It reaches a length of 175 centimeters and more. The very dense, cylindrical grapes are 60 to 75 centimeters or more long and 7 centimeters wide. The ovate-pointed, briefly sharply pointed bracts have a length of 10 millimeters and are 7 millimeters wide. The bright scarlet flowers are greenish inside their mouth and stand on 4 to 5 millimeter long peduncles . They are 20 to 25 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 6 millimeters. Above that, they are expanded to 20 millimeters towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the pen stand out 8 to 10 millimeters from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe macroclada is common in Madagascar on grasslands on dry mountain slopes at altitudes of 700 to 1500 meters.
The first description by John Gilbert Baker was published in 1883.
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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. 292 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe macroclada . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 155 .
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.
- ^ JG Baker: Contributions to the Flora of Madagascar. - Part III. Incompletæ, Monocotyledons, and Filices . In: Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . Volume 20, London 1883, p. 273 ( online ).