Aloe rugosifolia
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Aloe rugosifolia is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet rugosifolia is derived from the Latin words rugosus for 'wrinkled' and -folius for '-blättrig' and refers to the wrinkled leaf surface.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe rugosifolia is stem-forming, is occasionally simple and usually forms small groups. The trunk, lying down over time, reaches a length of up to 50 centimeters. The 16 to 20 lanceolate, narrowed leaves form a dense rosette . The deep green to brownish green leaf blade is 20 to 40 inches long and 5.5 to 8 inches wide. There are many scattered cloudy white lens-shaped spots on it. The leaf surface is finely wrinkled. The rigid, reddish brown teeth on the leaf margin are lighter at their base. They are 3 to 5 millimeters long and 10 to 15 millimeters apart. The leaf juice dries yellow.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence has eight to ten branches and reaches a length of 150 to 180 centimeters. The loose, cylindrical, pointed grapes are 10 to 20 centimeters long. The ovoid-pointed bracts are 10 to 13 millimeters long and 4 to 8 millimeters wide. The pinkish red flowers are on 5.5 to 7 millimeter long peduncles . They are 25 to 28 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers are 5 to 6 millimeters in diameter. Above that, they are expanded to 8 millimeters. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 15 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe rugosifolia is found on both sides of the border between Ethiopia and Kenya in the open deciduous forest at altitudes of 1000 to 1100 meters.
The first description by Michael George Gilbert and Sebsebe Demissew was published in 1992. A synonym is Aloe otallensis var. Elongata 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. 604 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe rugosifolia . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 176 .
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.
- ^ MG Gilbert, Sebsebe Demissew: Notes on the genus Aloe in Ethiopia: misinterpreted taxa . In: Kew Bulletin . Volume 47, Number 4, 1992, pp. 652-653.