Aloe mccoyi
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Aloe mccoyi is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet mccoyi honors the US consultant and plant collector Thomas A. McCoy , who lives in Saudi Arabia.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe mccoyi grows trunk-forming and individually. The creeping trunks reach a length of up to 200 centimeters and are 8 centimeters thick. The 15 to 20 spread to downwardly curved leaves are broadly triangular and pointed at their tips. Your gray to bluish green leaf blade is 30 to 40 inches long, 12 inches wide and up to 4 inches thick. The narrow, cartilaginous, pink-colored leaf margin is entire. Occasionally there will be a tooth or two towards the tip. The thick, yellow leaf sap dries yellow.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence consists of one or two branches and reaches a length of 40 to 50 centimeters. The rather loose grapes are up to 28 centimeters long. The egg-shaped-pointed bracts have a length of 5 millimeters and are 2.5 millimeters wide. The red to pink flowers are yellow at their mouth and are on 7 millimeter long, red flower stalks . The flowers are 25 to 33 millimeters long. At the level of the ovary , the flowers are 7 millimeters in diameter. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 10 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand 2 millimeters out from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe mccoyi is widespread in Yemen in the Fartaq Mountains at an altitude of about 430 meters. The species is only known from the locality of the type.
The first description by John Jacob Lavranos and Bruno A. Mies was published in 2001.
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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. 504 .
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. 96.
- ^ John J. Lavranos, Bruno A. Mies: A noteworthy new Aloe from the Ra's Fartaq Mountains, south-east Yemen . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 73, Number 3, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 2001, p. 150.
Web links
- Photos of Aloe mccoyi
- Herbarium evidence