Aloe microdonta
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Aloe microdonta is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet microdonta is derived from the Greek words micro for 'small' and odontos for 'tooth' and refers to the small teeth on the leaf edge of the species.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe microdonta grows trunk-forming, branched and occasionally forms large, dense groups. Their prostrate trunks have an ascending tip and are up to 100 centimeters long. The approximately 16 triangular leaves are densely packed at the top of the trunk. The cloudy green to olive green, occasionally reddish tinged leaf blade is 50 to 70 centimeters long and 9 to 11 centimeters wide. Sometimes there are a few cloudy white spots at their base. The whitish, light brown pointed teeth on the leaf margin are 1 millimeter (rarely 2 millimeters) long and 5 to 14 millimeters apart. The leaf sap is dry yellow.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence consists of eight to twelve branches and reaches a length of 130 centimeters. The lower branches are occasionally branched again. The loose, crooked to ascending grapes are 10 to 15 centimeters and consist of more or less uniform flowers. The egg-shaped pointed bracts are 2 to 4 millimeters long and 2 millimeters wide. The scarlet red flowers sometimes have a lighter mouth. They stand on 5 to 6 millimeter long flower stalks . The flowers are 23 millimeters long and rounded or briefly narrowed at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 7 millimeters, above they are slightly narrowed and then widened towards the mouth. Your tepals are not fused together over a length of 10 millimeters. The stamens and the style stick out about 3 millimeters from the flower.
Systematics, distribution and endangerment
Aloe microdonta is common in Somalia and Kenya on light, sandy soils at heights of 15 to 400 meters.
The first description by Emilio Chiovenda was published in 1928.
Aloe microdonta is in the endangered Red List species the IUCN as " Least Concern (LC) ", d. H. classified as not endangered in nature.
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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. 616 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe microdonta . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 159 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 153.
- ^ Emilio Chiovenda: Plantae Novae vel Minus Notae ex Aethiopia . Part 1, 1928, p. 7.
- ↑ Aloe microdonta in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2012. Posted by: the Eastern Arc Mountains and Coastal Forests CEPF Plant Assessment Project Participants, 2009. Accessed October 17, 2012th
Web links
- Photos of Aloe microdonta
- Herbarium evidence