Aloe mahraensis
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Aloe mahraensis is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet mahraensis refers to the occurrence of the species in the governorate of al-Mahra in Yemen.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe mahraensis has no trunk, branches and forms large, dense groups. The twelve to 20 leaves are narrowly lanceolate-pointed. The gray or bluish green leaf blade is 22 to 25 inches long and 7 inches wide. The leaf margin is entire or sometimes has indistinct teeth. The leaf sap is yellow.
Inflorescences and flowers
The upright inflorescence is simple or occasionally has one or two branches. It reaches a length of 50 to 70 centimeters. The rather loose, cylindrical grapes are about 30 centimeters long. The bracts have a length of 4 millimeters and are 2 millimeters wide. The bare red flowers have a yellow mouth and are on 6 millimeter long, pink flower stalks . The flowers are 22 to 26 millimeters long. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 5 millimeters. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 7 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand 2 to 3 millimeters out from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe mahraensis is common in Yemen on dry runoff on the coastal plain of al-Mahra around al-Ghaida at an altitude of about 75 meters.
The first description by John Jacob Lavranos and Thomas A. McCoy was published in 2002.
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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. 414 .
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, Tom A. McCoy: Yemeni aloes: a new species and a synonymized variety . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 74, Number 5, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 2002, p. 238.