Aloe makayana
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Aloe makayana is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet makayana refers to the occurrence of the species in the Makay Mountains of Madagascar.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe makayana grows solitary and without a trunk or forms a short prostrate to pendulous trunk. The 15 to 22 spread, deltoid leaves form rather loose rosettes . The gray-green leaf blade often has a purple or reddish hue. It is 30 to 40 inches long and 6.5 to 9 inches wide. The hard, triangular, white or pink, backward-facing teeth on the white or pink edge of the leaf are shorter than 1 millimeter and almost converge at the base of the leaf. The leaf sap dries bright yellow.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence consists of up to five branches and reaches a length of 90 centimeters. The rather loose grapes are short conical. The bracts have a length of 2 to 3 millimeters. The pale pink to whitish flowers hang on 20 to 28 millimeters long, horizontally spread flower stalks . The flowers are 26 to 30 millimeters long. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 7.5 millimeters. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of about 15 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand out 4 to 6 millimeters from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe makayana is distributed in Madagascar in the Makay Mountains on steep slopes made of quartzitic sandstone at an altitude of 580 to 650 meters. The species is only known from the area where the type was found.
The first description by John Jacob Lavranos , Bakolimalala Rakouth and Thomas A. McCoy was published in 2008.
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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. 322 .
- John J. Lavranos, Bakolimalala Rakouth, Tom McCoy: Aloe makayana (Aloaceae) - a remarkable new species from western Madagascar In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 59, Number 7, 2008, pp. 187-192.
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, Bakolimalala Rakouth, Tom McCoy: Aloe makayana (Aloaceae) - a remarkable new species from western Madagascar In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 59, Number 7, 2008, pp. 190-192.