Aloe rubrodonta
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Aloe rubrodonta is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet rubrodonta is derived from the Latin word rubrus for 'red' and the Greek word odontos for 'tooth' and refers to the red teeth on the leaf margin.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe rubrodonta grows stemless, is solitary or divides into two to three rosettes . The twelve to 18 leaves are ovate-lanceolate. Their jade-green leaf blades are 10 to 15 inches long and 4 inches wide. There are H-shaped white spots on the top of the leaf. The underside is strongly spotted with white. The deltoid, red teeth on the cartilaginous, dark red leaf margin are 1.5 millimeters long and are 4 to 5 millimeters apart. The clear leaf sap dries yellow.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence has up to three branches and reaches a length of 30 centimeters. The almost capped grapes are 8 to 10 centimeters long. The whitish green, fleshy bracts are 13 to 16 millimeters long and 5 millimeters wide. The nodding, cloudy yellow-orange flowers appear waxy and are yellow at the mouth. They stand on 30 to 32 millimeter long flower stalks . The flowers are 30 to 35 millimeters long. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 11 to 12 millimeters. Above that, they are narrowed to 7 millimeters towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 5 millimeters. The stamens protrude 3 millimeters and the stylus protrudes 6 millimeters from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe rubrodonta is common in the northwest of Somalia on limestone deposits at an altitude of 1525 meters. The species is only known from the locality of the type.
The first description by Thomas A. McCoy and John Jacob Lavranos was published in 2007.
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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. 157 .
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. 99.
- ↑ Tom McCoy, John Lavranos: Aloe rubrodonta and Aloe kahinii (Asphodelaceae), two notable new species from Somaliland . In: Haseltonia . Number 13, 2007, pp. 29-33.