Aloe tomentosa

Aloe tomentosa
	Aloe tomentosa
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe tomentosa
Scientific name
	Aloe tomentosa
	Deflers

Section from the inflorescence

Aloe tomentosa is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet tomentosa comes from Latin , means 'felty' and refers to the hairy flowers of the species.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe tomentosa grows trunk-forming, sprouts and forms dense groups. The prostrate trunk is short. The lanceolate-deltoid leaves form dense rosettes . The gray-green, reddish tinged leaf blade is about 35 centimeters long and 9 centimeters wide. The blunt teeth on the narrow, pinkish-brown, cartilaginous leaf margin are 0.5 to 1 millimeter long and 20 to 40 millimeters apart. Occasionally they are missing. The leaf sap is pale yellow when dry.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence consists of three to four branches and reaches a length of 60 to 70 centimeters. The rather dense, cylindrical-conical grapes are up to 15 inches long and 5 to 6 inches wide. The egg-shaped deltoid bracts are 7 millimeters long and 4 millimeters wide. The pink-pink, conspicuously felty flowers are on 6 to 9 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 24 to 28 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 7 to 8 millimeters. They are slightly narrowed above this. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 9 millimeters. The orange stamens and the orange pen hardly protrude from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe tomentosa is common in Saudi Arabia and Yemen on rocky slopes at altitudes of 2400 to 3100 meters.

The first description by Albert Deflers was published in 1889. As a synonym was Aloe tomentosa f. viridiflora Lodé (1997, nom. inval. ICBN -Article 34.1b, 36.1) included in the species.

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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. 341 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe tomentosa . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 185 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 241.
^ Albert Deflers: Voyage au Yemen. Journal d'une excursion botanique faite en 1887 in the montagnes de l'Arabie heureuse . Paul Klincksieck, Paris 1889, p. 211 ( online ).

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 241.

[2] Albert Deflers: Voyage au Yemen. Journal d'une excursion botanique faite en 1887 in the montagnes de l'Arabie heureuse . Paul Klincksieck, Paris 1889, p. 211 ( online ).