Aloe subacutissima
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Aloe subacutissima is a plant of the genus Aloe in the subfamily of asphodeloideae (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet subacutissima indicates that Gilbert Westacott Reynolds assumed that the speciesis similar to Aloe acutissima .
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe subacutissima grows trunk-forming and branching. The upright, spreading or prostrate trunks reach a length of up to 100 centimeters and are 3 centimeters thick. They are covered with perennial dead leaves. The 20 to 26 lanceolate, narrowed leaves form a rosette . The cloudy green, reddish tinged leaf blade is 25 to 30 centimeters long and 5 to 6 centimeters wide. The reddish-brown, lighter-pointed teeth on the leaf margin are 3 to 4 millimeters long and 10 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence has two to three branches and reaches a length of about 60 centimeters. The dense, cylindrical, pointed grapes are 10 to 15 centimeters long. The lanceolate, pointed bracts have a length of 12 millimeters and are brick-shaped when they are budding. The scarlet flowers are on 15 millimeter long peduncles . They are 28 millimeters long and have an inverted conical narrowing at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 5 millimeters. Above this they are narrowed to 4 millimeters and finally widened to the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 11 millimeters. The stamens and the style protrude up to 1 millimeter from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe subacutissima is common in Madagascar on flat rocks at heights of 600 to 1000 meters.
The first description by Gordon Douglas Rowley was published in 1973.
Synonyms are Aloe deltoideodonta var. Intermedia H. Perier (1926) and Aloe intermedia Reynolds (1957, nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 53.1).
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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. 564 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe subacutissima . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 183 .