Aloe pachydactylos
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Aloe pachydactylos is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet pachydactylos is derived from the Greek words pachys for 'thick' and dactylos for 'finger' and refers to the extremely thick leaves of the species in relation to their length.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe pachydactylos grows singly and without a trunk or with a short, upright trunk up to 7 centimeters in length. The ten to 16 stiff, linear leaves are extremely thick to almost cylindrical and form rosettes . Their greyish, brownish tinge of leaf blade is 15 inches long, 4.5 to 5 inches wide and 2.5 to 3 inches thick. The rounded tip is serrated. The sharp, red, deltoid teeth on the leaf margin are 2 to 3 millimeters long and 1 to 2 millimeters apart. The leaf sap is pale yellow.
Inflorescences and flowers
The simple inflorescence reaches a length of 30 centimeters. The grapes are short cylindrical to almost head-shaped. The white bracts are 4 to 6 millimeters long. The broad, bell-shaped, orange-yellow flowers are on 5 to 8 millimeters long, reddish pedicels . They are about 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 3 to 5 millimeters. The stamens protrude up to 3 millimeters and the stylus protrudes up to 10 millimeters from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe pachydactylos is common in Madagascar on the summit of Ibity on quartzitic sandstone at an altitude of about 2000 meters. The species is only known from the area where the type was found.
The first description by Thomas A. McCoy and John Jacob Lavranos was published in 2007.
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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. 229 .
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.
- ↑ Tom McCoy, John Lavranos: A costal and a montane new species of Madagascan Aloe In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 79, Number 3, 2007, pp. 126-130.
Web links
- Photo of Aloe pachydactylos