Aloe pseudorubroviolacea
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Aloe pseudorubroviolacea is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet pseudorubroviolacea is derived from the Greek word pseudo for 'wrong' and refers to the similarity with the species Aloe rubroviolacea .
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe pseudorubroviolacea grows trunk-forming and simply or rarely sprouts sprouts. The prostrate trunks reach a length of up to 4 meters and are covered with the remains of dead leaf bases. The approximately 18 triangular narrowed leaves form a rosette . The bluish gray or bright green leaf blade is up to 60 centimeters long and 15 centimeters wide. The hard, triangular teeth on the leaf margin are 2 to 3 millimeters long and 25 to 40 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inclined rising or curved back inflorescence has four to 20 branches. It reaches a length of up to 100 centimeters. The up to 52 dense, cylindrical grapes are 25 to 60 centimeters long. The egg-shaped triangular, pointed bracts have a length of 7 millimeters. The bulging, bright red, orange or rarely golden yellow flowers are on 3 millimeter long peduncles . They are 32 to 40 millimeters long and rounded at their base. In the middle, the flowers have a diameter of 12 millimeters. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 20 to 22 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand 10 to 14 millimeters out of flowering.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe pseudorubroviolacea is common in Saudi Arabia on steep hill slopes at altitudes of 1550 to 2000 meters.
The first description by John Jacob Lavranos and Iris Sheila Collenette was published in 2000.
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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. 639 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe pseudorubroviolacea . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 172 .
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.
- ^ John Jacob Lavranos, Iris Sheila Collenette: New aloes from Saudi Arabia: part 1 . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 72, Number 1, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 2000, pp. 17-18.