Aloe pubescens
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Aloe pubescens is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet pubescens comes from Latin , means 'finely hairy' and refers to the hairy flowers of the species.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe pubescens grows without a stem or with a short stem, is simple or often forms groups. The approximately 16 lanceolate, narrowed leaves form a rosette . The gray-green leaf blade is 45 centimeters long and 8 centimeters wide. The piercing, reddish-brown tipped teeth on the edge of the leaf white at their base are 2 to 3 millimeters long and 15 to 20 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence is simple or has a branch. It reaches a length of 70 to 100 centimeters. The rather dense, cylindrically pointed grapes are about 20 centimeters long. The ovoid-deltoid bracts have a length of 20 millimeters and are 6 millimeters wide. The coral-pink, short, downy-haired flowers are on 15 millimeter long peduncles . They are 42 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 8 millimeters. Above it, they are slightly narrowed, then slightly expanded and finally narrowed towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 16 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.
genetics
The number of chromosomes is .
Systematics and distribution
Aloe pubescens is widespread in Ethiopia on rock banks at altitudes of around 1800 meters.
The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1957.
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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. 270 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe pubescens . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 172 .