Aloe mzimbana
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Aloe mzimbana is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet mzimbana refers to the occurrence of the species at Mzimba in Zimbabwe.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe mzimbana grows without a trunk or with a short trunk, sprouts and forms dense groups. The approximately 20 deltoid-ovate-lanceolate leaves form a dense rosette . The greyish green, indistinctly striped leaf blade is 20 to 45 centimeters long and 7 to 8 centimeters wide. There are occasionally a few scattered spots on it. The reddish pink teeth on the reddish pink edge of the leaf are 2 to 4 millimeters long and 8 to 10 millimeters apart. The leaf juice dries yellow.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence is simple or has two to eight branches. It reaches a length of 30 to 80 centimeters. The dense, short cylindrical grapes are 8 to 15 centimeters long. The ovate-lanceolate bracts are 6 to 10 millimeters long and 3 to 4 millimeters wide. The coral to scarlet red flowers are on 15 to 26 millimeter long peduncles . They are 35 millimeters long and narrowed at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 8 millimeters. Above this they are narrowed to 6 millimeters and finally widened to the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 12 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand 2 millimeters out from the flower.
genetics
The number of chromosomes is .
Systematics and distribution
Aloe mzimbana is common in Tanzania , Zaire , Zambia and Malawi on rock deposits at altitudes of 1280 to 2300 meters.
The first description by Hugh Basil Christian was published in 1941.
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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. 421 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe mzimbana . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 162 .