Aloe neosteudneri

Aloe neosteudneri
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe neosteudneri
Scientific name
	Aloe neosteudneri
	Lavranos & TAMcCoy

Aloe neosteudneri is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet neosteudneri refers to the similarity with Aloe steudneri .

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe neosteudneri grows short stem-forming, is usually single, but sometimes divides into two to three rosettes . The trunks reach a length of up to 30 centimeters. The up to 35 wide-spread leaves form rosettes . Their bluish-green or glauk- green, lined leaf blades are 40 to 60 centimeters long and 8 to 12 centimeters wide. The rather soft teeth on the leaf margin are 1 to 2 millimeters long and 7 to 9 millimeters apart. The leaf sap dries yellowish brown.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence is simple or has up to four branches. It reaches a length of 70 to 90 centimeters. The almost loose, cylindrical-conical grapes are 12 to 35 centimeters long. The ovoid-pointed bracts are 10 to 13 millimeters long and 5 to 8 millimeters wide. The cylindrical, pale pink flowers are on 10 to 18 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 36 to 38 millimeters long. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 5 to 7 millimeters. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe neosteudneri is widespread in Eritrea below the summit of Jebel Saber on rocky slopes at an altitude of 2400 to 2500 meters. The species is only known from the locality of the type.

The first description by John Jacob Lavranos and Thomas A. McCoy was published in 2007.

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. 285 .

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. 97.
↑ JJ Lavranos, TA McCoy: The identity of Aloe steudneri Schweinfurth and a new species, Aloe neosteudneri, from Mt. Saber, Eritrea . In: Bradleya . Volume 25, 2007, pp. 9-16.

[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. 97.

[2] JJ Lavranos, TA McCoy: The identity of Aloe steudneri Schweinfurth and a new species, Aloe neosteudneri, from Mt. Saber, Eritrea . In: Bradleya . Volume 25, 2007, pp. 9-16.