Aloe menachensis

Aloe menachensis
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe menachensis
Scientific name
	Aloe menachensis
	( Schweinf. ) Sheet.

Aloe menachensis is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The epithet menachensis refers to the occurrence of the species near Menacha in Yemen.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe menachensis grows in a stem-forming manner. The upright trunk reaches a length of up to 50 centimeters. The triangular-lanceolate, narrowed leaves form a dense rosette . The greenish purple leaf blade is 40 centimeters long and 16 centimeters wide. Their underside is keeled near the top. The keel occasionally has one to three spines. The blunt, brown-tipped teeth on the somewhat purple-colored edge of the leaf are 2 millimeters long and 15 to 20 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The high inflorescence is numerous branched. The dense, cylindrical grapes are 15 to 20 inches long and 5 to 6 inches wide. The knocked back bracts have a length of 10 to 15 millimeters. The light or reddish scarlet, short white felt flowers are on 5 to 7 millimeter long peduncles . They are 30 millimeters long. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 12 millimeters.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe menachensis is widespread in Yemen on exposed rock slopes at altitudes of 2200 to 2900 meters.

The first description as Aloe percrassa var. Menachensis by Georg August Schweinfurth was published in 1894. Ethelbert Blatter raised the variety to the rank of a species in 1936. Aloe trichosantha var. Menachensis (Schweinf.) A.Berger (1908) is a synonym .

proof

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. 608 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe menachensis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 158 .

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.
↑ Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier . Volume 2, Appendix II, 1894, p. 64 ( online ).
↑ Flora Arabica . Volume 8, 1936, p. 463.

[1] 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.

[2] Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier . Volume 2, Appendix II, 1894, p. 64 ( online ).

[3] Flora Arabica . Volume 8, 1936, p. 463.