Aloe tororoana

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

Aloe tororoana is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet tororoana refers to the occurrence of the species on the Tororo rock in Uganda.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe tororoana grows trunk-forming and branching. The shoots reach a length of about 20 centimeters and a diameter of 1.5 centimeters. The approximately 20 lanceolate, narrowed leaves form dense rosettes . The cloudy, milky green leaf blade is 15 inches long and 3 to 5 inches wide. There are a few to numerous small, elongated, cloudy white spots. The spots on the underside of the leaf are more numerous and compact. The piercing, whitish, brown-tipped teeth on the leaf margin are 2 to 3 millimeters long and 5 to 10 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence is simple or consists of one or two branches. It reaches a length of up to 40 centimeters. The rather dense, cylindrically pointed grapes are 8 to 10 centimeters long. The ovoid-deltoid bracts have a length of 3 millimeters and are 2 millimeters wide. The coral-red to scarlet, green-tipped flowers are on 8 to 10 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 20 to 22 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 5 millimeters. Above that, they are narrowed to 4 millimeters and then slightly widened towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 7 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand 2 to 3 millimeters out from the flower.

genetics

The number of chromosomes is . ${\ displaystyle 2n = 14}$

Systematics and distribution

Aloe tororoana is widespread in the southwest of Uganda on steep rocky surfaces at altitudes of 1350 to 1460 meters. The species is only known from the locality of the type.

The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1953.

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. 486 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe tororoana . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 185-186 .

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.
^ Flowering Plants of Africa . Volume 29, 1953, plate 1144.

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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] Flowering Plants of Africa . Volume 29, 1953, plate 1144.