Aloe parvidens

Aloe parvidens
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe parvidens
Scientific name
	Aloe parvidens
	MG Gilbert & Sebsebe

Aloe parvidens is a type of plant of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet parvidens is derived from the Latin words parvus for 'small' and dens for 'tooth' and refers to the small teeth on the edge of the leaf.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe parvidens grows without a stem or with a short stem, is simple or forms small groups. The lanceolate, narrowed leaves form rosettes . The dark green to brownish leaf blade is 25 to 42 centimeters long and 4.5 to 6.5 centimeters (rarely up to 9 centimeters) wide. There are numerous elliptical bright spots on it. The leaf surface is smooth. The brown-tipped teeth on the leaf margin are 1 to 2.5 millimeters long and 8 to 13 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence has two to ten branches and reaches a length of 100 to 140 centimeters. The loose, cylindrical grapes are 9 to 20 centimeters long. Sometimes some of the flowers are one-sided. The egg-shaped-pointed bracts are 5 to 6 millimeters long and 3 to 4.5 millimeters wide. The light pink, yellowish tipped flowers are on 5.5 to 12 millimeter long peduncles . They are 26 to 30 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers are 6 to 8 millimeters in diameter. They are slightly narrowed above this. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 6 to 10 millimeters. The stamens protrude about 3 millimeters from the flower.

genetics

The number of chromosomes is . ${\ displaystyle 2n = 14}$

Systematics and distribution

Aloe parvidens is common in Ethiopia , Kenya , Tanzania and Somalia mostly in the shade on sandy or stony soils at altitudes of 560 to 1450 meters.

The first description by Michael George Gilbert and Sebsebe Demissew was published in 1992.

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. 325 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe parvidens . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 167 .

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.
↑ Michael George Gilbert, Sebsebe Demissew: Notes on the genus Aloe in Ethiopia: misinterpreted taxa . In: Kew Bulletin . Volume 47, number 4, 1992, p. 650.

[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] Michael George Gilbert, Sebsebe Demissew: Notes on the genus Aloe in Ethiopia: misinterpreted taxa . In: Kew Bulletin . Volume 47, number 4, 1992, p. 650.