Aloe shadensis

Aloe shadensis
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe shadensis
Scientific name
	Aloe shadensis
	Lavranos & Collen.

Aloe shadensis is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet shadensis refers to the occurrence of the species in Jabal Shada in Saudi Arabia.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe shadensis grows without a trunk and individually. The spread to ascending, lanceolate narrowed leaves form a dense rosette . The slightly pinkish-gray leaf blade is about 60 centimeters long and 15 centimeters wide. The light brown teeth on the leaf margin are small and far apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The upright inflorescence has two to five branches and reaches a length of 150 centimeters. The rather dense, cylindrical grapes are about 25 centimeters long. The bracts have a length of 7 to 9 millimeters and are 3 to 4 millimeters wide. The curved, light pink flowers are on 7 to 11 millimeter long peduncles . They are 30 to 35 millimeters long and briefly narrowed at the base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers are 6 to 7 millimeters in diameter. They are not narrowed beyond that. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 17 millimeters. The stamens do not protrude and the stylus 5 mm from the flower out.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe shadensis is common in Saudi Arabia in woody vegetation on granite at altitudes of 750 to 1800 meters.

The first description by John Jacob Lavranos and Iris Sheila Collenette was published in 2000.

proof

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. 371 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe shadensis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 179 .

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. 100.
^ John J. Lavranos, Sheila Collenette: New aloes from Saudi Arabia: part 2 . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 72, Number 2, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 2000, p. 82.

Web links

Photos at davesgarden.com

[1] 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. 100.

[2] John J. Lavranos, Sheila Collenette: New aloes from Saudi Arabia: part 2 . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 72, Number 2, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 2000, p. 82.