Aloe retrospiciens
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Aloe retrospiciens is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodil family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet retrospiciens comes from Latin , means 'looking back' and refers to the orientation of the buds and flowers.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe retrospiciens is stem-forming, sometimes simple, but usually branched two to six times. The upright trunk reaches a length of 100 to 125 centimeters and is 3 centimeters thick. The ten to 20 centimeters below the top of the trunk, about twelve lanceolate, narrow leaves form a dense rosette . The bluish gray, reddish tinged leaf blade is 25 centimeters long and 5 to 6 centimeters wide. There are occasionally a few scattered white spots on it near the base. The tip of the leaf is blunt and has a few small white teeth. The firm, white teeth on the white, cartilaginous leaf margin are 1 millimeter long and 5 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence has about ten branches and reaches a length of 65 centimeters. The rather dense grapes are 3 inches long and 5 inches wide. Terminal grapes are cylindrical, lateral ones usually consist of one-sided, backward-pointing flowers. The ovoid-deltoid bracts have a length of 5 millimeters and are 2.5 millimeters wide. The yellow flowers are greenish at their mouth and are on 5 to 6 millimeter long peduncles . They are 20 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 6 millimeters. Above that, they are slightly narrowed and finally slightly expanded towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 10 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand out 3 to 4 millimeters from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe retrospiciens is common in Somalia between boulders on sandy soils at altitudes of 800 to 1150 meters.
The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds and Peter René Oscar Bally was published in 1958. A synonym is Aloe ruspoliana var. Dracaeniformis A.Berger (1908).
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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. 647 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe retrospiciens . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 174 .