Aloe suarezensis
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Aloe suarezensis is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet suarezensis refers to the occurrence of the species in the area of Diego Suarez in Madagascar.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe suarezensis grows stemless or stem-forming and is simple. The upright shoots reach a length of up to 30 centimeters and are covered with perennial dead leaves. The 20 to 24 lanceolate, narrowed leaves form a dense rosette . The cloudy green, reddish tinged leaf blade is 50 to 60 centimeters long and 9 to 10 centimeters wide. There are two to three short teeth at its rounded tip. The dirty white to light pink teeth on the leaf margin are about 2 millimeters long and 10 millimeters apart. The leaf sap dries pale yellow.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence has four to twelve branches and reaches a length of 60 to 80 centimeters. The lower branches are occasionally branched again. The dense, cylindrical grapes are 10 to 15 inches long and 6 inches wide. The egg-shaped narrowed, dirty white bracts have a length of 10 to 12 millimeters and are 4 to 6 millimeters wide. The finely downy-haired, cloudy to light scarlet- red flowers are lighter at their mouth and stand on 10 to 12 millimeter long peduncles . They are 28 millimeters long and rounded at their base and very short narrowed. At the level of the ovary , the flowers are 7 millimeters in diameter. Above it, they are narrowed to 5.5 millimeters and finally widened to the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the pen stand 2 to 3 millimeters out from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe suarezensis is widespread in Madagascar on bare granite rocks near the sea at heights of around 50 to 100 meters.
The first description by Henri Perrier de La Bâthie was published in 1926.
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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. 362 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe suarezensis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 183 .
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. 101.
- ^ H. Perrier: Les Lomatophyllum et les Aloë de Madagascar . In: Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Normandie. Botanique . Volume 1, Number 1, 1926, p. 21.
