Aloe mcloughlinii
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Aloe mcloughlinii is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet mcloughlinii honors the South African lawyer Alfred G. McLoughlin (1886–1960) who collected the type specimen.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe mcloughlinii grows stemless or short stem-forming, is simple or usually forms groups consisting of up to six rosettes . The 16 to 20 lanceolate, narrowed leaves form a leaf rosette . The glossy green leaf blade is about 40 to 50 inches long and 7 inches wide. It is covered with many light green elongated spots. The spots on the underside of the leaf are more numerous and larger. The leaf surface is smooth. The firm, reddish brown tipped teeth on the leaf margin are about 3 to 5 millimeters long and 10 to 15 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence has six to nine branches and reaches a length of 100 to 120 centimeters. The loose, cylindrical, pointed grapes are up to 15 centimeters long and 6 centimeters wide. The deltoid-pointed bracts have a length of 5 millimeters and are 2 millimeters wide. The strawberry-red, slightly frosted flowers stand on 10 millimeter long flower stalks . They are 20 to 24 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 9 to 10 millimeters. Above that, they are slightly narrowed and finally slightly expanded towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 16 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand out 4 to 5 millimeters from the flower.
genetics
The number of chromosomes is .
Systematics and distribution
Aloe mcloughlinii is common in Ethiopia in the Dire Dawa area .
The first description by Hugh Basil Christian was published in 1951. Aloe mcloughlinii hort is a synonym . (no year, nom. invalid ICBN -Article 61.1).
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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. 344 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe mcloughlinii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 157 .