Aloe omavandae
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Aloe omavandae is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet omavandae refers to the occurrence of the species near Omavanda in Namibia.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe omavandae has a short stem and grows individually. The hanging trunks reach a length of up to 22 centimeters and are 3.5 to 5.5 centimeters thick. The up to 25 deltoid-lanceolate leaves form dense rosettes at the stem tip . Their pale green to greyish green, pale pink-green fading leaf blades are 30 to 47 inches long and 6.5 to 8.5 inches wide. The upper side of the leaf is sparsely spotted with white at the base. The underside is densely spotted and the spots form indistinct transverse bands there. The white-cartilaginous to reddish-brown teeth on the leaf margin are 1 to 1.5 millimeters long and 10 to 15 millimeters apart. The leaf juice dries pale orange-brown.
Inflorescences and flowers
The pendulous inflorescence is simple or has two to four branches. It reaches a length of 50 to 70 centimeters. The rather dense, cylindrically pointed grapes are 14 to 21 centimeters long. The linear-lanceolate bracts have a length of 12 millimeters and are 3 millimeters wide. The cylindrical-triangular orange-red flowers are on 8 to 10 millimeter long peduncles . Buds are tipped gray. The flowers are 23 to 25 millimeters long. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 5 millimeters. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of about 8 millimeters. The stamens and the style stick out about 3 to 4 millimeters from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe omavandae is distributed in northern Namibia in the Kaokoveld in the eastern Baynes Mountains at an altitude of 1500 to 2000 meters.
The first description by Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld was published in 2004.
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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. 508 .
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.
- ^ Ernst van Jaarsveld, Braam van Wyk: Aloe omavandae (Asphodelaceae), a new species from the Kaokoveld, northwestern Namibia . In: Haseltonia . Number 10, 2004, pp. 41-43.