Aloe mudenensis

Aloe mudenensis
	Aloe mudenensis
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe mudenensis
Scientific name
	Aloe mudenensis
	Reynolds

Aloe mudenensis is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet mudenensis refers to the occurrence of the species in the Muden Valley in South Africa.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe mudenensis grows stem-forming, is simple or forms small groups. The upright or prostrate trunks reach a length of up to 80 centimeters and are 10 centimeters thick. The approximately 20 lanceolate, narrowed leaves form a dense rosette . The bluish green, sometimes lined, leaf blade is up to 25 to 30 centimeters long and 8 to 9 centimeters wide. There are many elongated white spots scattered on it. The lined underside of the leaves is lighter and sometimes covered with elongated, cloudy white, scattered or more or less arranged in transverse bands. The stinging, brown teeth on the leaf margin are up to 7 millimeters long and 10 to 20 millimeters apart. The leaf sap dries reddish purple.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence has four to eight branches and reaches a length of up to 100 centimeters. The rather dense, almost capped grapes are about 12 centimeters long and 8 to 9 centimeters wide. The deltoid pointed bracts have a length of 12 to 15 millimeters. The salmon orange, sometimes reddish flowers are on 20 to 25 millimeter long peduncles . They are 35 millimeters long and trimmed at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 8 millimeters. Above this they are suddenly narrowed to 5 millimeters and finally widened towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 9 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.

genetics

The number of chromosomes is . ${\ displaystyle 2n = 14}$

Systematics and distribution

Aloe mudenensis is widespread in the north of the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal in dry bushes at altitudes of 500 to 1700 meters.

The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1937.

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. 170 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe mudenensis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 162 .

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.
^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 3, number 1, Kirstenbosch 1937, pp. 39–42, plate 1.

Web links

Aloe mudenensis on the Red List of South African Plants

[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] Journal of South African Botany . Volume 3, number 1, Kirstenbosch 1937, pp. 39–42, plate 1.