Aloe mendesii
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Aloe mendesii is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet mendesii honors the Portuguese botanist Eduardo José Santos Moreira Mendes (* 1924).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe mendesii usually grows singly and trunk-forming. The hanging trunks reach a length of up to 100 centimeters and are 4 centimeters thick. The approximately ten sickle-shaped leaves are drooping. The green, indistinctly lined leaf blade is 50 centimeters long and 7 to 8 centimeters wide. The blunt, cartilaginous teeth on the edge of the leaf are 1 to 2 millimeters long and 10 to 15 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The hanging inflorescence has three to four branches and reaches a length of up to 60 centimeters. The arching ascending, fairly dense, cylindrically pointed grapes are 10 centimeters long and 6 centimeters wide. The egg-shaped-pointed, deep pink bracts are 12 millimeters long and 5 millimeters wide. In the bud stage they are arranged in a brick shape. The scarlet, slightly bulbous flowers are on 18 to 20 millimeter long peduncles . They are 25 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 4 millimeters. Above that, they are widened to the mouth and narrowed just below the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 20 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus protrude 3 millimeters from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe mendesii is common in Angola and Namibia on vertical rock surfaces at an altitude of 2220 meters.
The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1964.
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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. 512 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe mendesii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 158 .