Aloe praetermissa

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

Aloe praetermissa is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet praetermissa comes from Latin , means 'overlooked' and indicates that the species was previously misinterpreted.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe praetermissa grows singly or sometimes divides into two to three rosettes . Often a short, upright or prostrate trunk is formed. The ten to 18 finally ascending, deltoid, pointed leaves form rosettes . Your cloudy gray-green leaf blade is 28 to 45 inches long and 7 to 12 inches wide. The leaf margin is entire or there are few soft teeth.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence is richly branched and spread out. It reaches a length of 120 centimeters. The upright to crooked, loose grapes consist of one-sided flowers. The bracts have a length of 5 to 8 millimeters and are 2.5 millimeters wide. The downy, reddish flowers are on 10 millimeter long, red pedicels . The flowers are 22 to 28 millimeters long. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 5 to 7 millimeters. Above it they are extended to the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 7 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand out from 1 to 3 millimeters from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe praetermissa is common in Oman on limestone at an altitude of about 1000 meters.

The first description by Thomas A. McCoy and John Jacob Lavranos was published in 2002.

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. 333 .

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. 98.
↑ Tom McCoy, John Lavranos: Aloe praetermissa a new species from the Sultanate of Oman . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 74, Number 1, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 2002, p. 27.

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Photo of aloe praetermissa
Herbarium evidence

[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. 98.

[2] Tom McCoy, John Lavranos: Aloe praetermissa a new species from the Sultanate of Oman . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 74, Number 1, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 2002, p. 27.