Aloe medishiana
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Aloe medishiana is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet medishiana refers to the occurrence of the species in Medishe in Somalia.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe medishiana grows trunk-forming, is simple or branched from the base. The upright trunks reach a length of up to 200 centimeters and are 3 to 3.5 centimeters thick. The approximately 24 sword-shaped leaves are huddled together on the top 20 centimeters of the trunks. The gray-green leaf blade is up to 30 inches long and 5.5 inches wide. The firm, white teeth on the narrow, white, cartilaginous leaf margin are about 1 millimeter long and 5 to 10 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence has six to eight branches and reaches a length of about 50 centimeters. The rather dense, cylindrical grapes are 8 to 10 inches long and 5 inches wide. The egg-shaped-pointed, white bracts have a length of 2 to 3 millimeters and are 2 millimeters wide. The cloudy, scarlet flowers are on 9 millimeter long peduncles . They are 19 millimeters long and narrowed briefly at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 5 millimeters. They are hardly narrowed beyond that. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 5 to 6 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand out from 1 to 3 millimeters from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe medishiana is common in Somalia on exposed rocky slopes at altitudes of 1460 to 1525 meters.
The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds and Peter René Oscar Bally was published in 1958.
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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. 650 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe medishiana . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 157 .