Aloe ruvuensis
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Aloe ruvuensis is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet ruvuensis refers to the occurrence of the species near the Ruvu Riverin Tanzania.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe ruvuensis grows single and trunkless. The twelve to 15 spread-back-bent leaves are broadly ovate-lanceolate. Your leaf blade is 60 inches long and 20 inches wide. On the cloudy gray-green upper side of the leaf there are usually large elongated whitish spots arranged in transverse bands. The whitish green underside is not speckled. The distinctive red, deltoid teeth on the cartilaginous, dark red leaf margin are 6 millimeters long and 5 to 10 millimeters apart. The leaf juice dries brownish.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence has up to 20 branches and reaches a length of up to 100 centimeters. The lowest branches are branched again. The almost dense, heady to almost heady grapes are 10 to 40 centimeters long. The linear-lanceolate bracts have a length of 15 millimeters and are 3 millimeters wide. The red flowers appear waxy and 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 5 millimeters. In addition, they are extended to the often yellow mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 12 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe ruvuensis is distributed in Tanzania on low granite island mountains at an altitude of 830 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. 197 .
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: Four interesting new species of Tanzanian Aloes . In: Aloe . Volume 44, Number 2, 2007, pp. 50-53.