Aloe niebuhriana

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

Aloe niebuhriana is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet niebuhriana honors the botanist and explorer Carsten Niebuhr .

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe niebuhriana grows stemless or short stem-forming. On rocky ground it is simple, but on sandy ground it sprouts richly and forms dense groups. The trunks are prostrate. The 15 to 25 lanceolate, narrowed leaves form rosettes . The gray-green, slightly purple-tinted leaf blade is up to 45 centimeters long and 10 centimeters wide. The dark brown teeth on the leaf margin are 1.5 to 2 millimeters long and 12 to 15 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence is usually simple or occasionally consists of one or two branches. It reaches a length of 50 to 100 centimeters. The dense, conical grapes are 12 to 30 inches long and 5 to 6 inches wide. The deltoid-pointed bracts have a length of 8 millimeters and are 3 to 4 millimeters wide. The mostly short, downy, scarlet, greenish yellow tipped flowers are only rarely uniformly greenish yellow. They stand on 4 to 6 millimeter long flower stalks . The flowers are 28 to 31 millimeters long and narrowed briefly at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers are 6 to 7 millimeters in diameter. They are not narrowed beyond that. Your tepals are not fused together over a length of 19 to 21 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand out 3 to 4 millimeters from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe niebuhriana is common in Saudi Arabia and Yemen on rocky hills and sandbanks at heights of 250 to 500 meters.

The first description by John Jacob Lavranos was published in 1965.

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. 426 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe niebuhriana . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 164 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 166.
^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 31, number 1, Kirstenbosch 1965, pp. 68–71, plate 13.

Web links

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 166.

[2] Journal of South African Botany . Volume 31, number 1, Kirstenbosch 1965, pp. 68–71, plate 13.