Aloe whitcombei

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

Aloe whitcombei is a plant of the genus Aloe in the subfamily of asphodeloideae (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet whitcombei honors RP Whitcombe from Salalah in Oman, who collected the first plants of this species.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe whitcombei grows trunk-forming and is richly branching from the base. The usually hanging trunks reach a length of up to about 30 centimeters. The five to eight deltoid leaves with rounded tips form a dense rosette . The green leaf blade is 50 to 80 inches long and 15 inches wide. There are many rounded whitish spots on it. The soft, white teeth on the leaf margin are 0.5 millimeters long and 1 to 2 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inclined ascending and downward curved or completely oblique downward inflorescence is simple or has a branch. It reaches a length of 35 to 80 centimeters. The dense, conical grapes are 30 to 60 centimeters long. The deltoid-pointed bracts have a length of 4 millimeters and are 2.5 millimeters wide. The white, green-veined flowers are on stalks up to 6 millimeters long . They are 14 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 4 millimeters. They are not expanded beyond that. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 6 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand out 3 to 5 millimeters from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

Aloe whitcombei is common in Oman on vertical cliff surfaces at heights of over 900 meters.

The first description by John Jacob Lavranos was published in 1995.

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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. 471 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe Whitcombei . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 191 .

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. 102.
^ John J. Lavranos: Aloe whitcombei and A. collenetteae, two new cliff-dwelling species from Oman, Arabia . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 67, Number 1, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1995, pp. 30-33.

Web links

Photo of a plant in flower on Flickr

[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. 102.

[2] John J. Lavranos: Aloe whitcombei and A. collenetteae, two new cliff-dwelling species from Oman, Arabia . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 67, Number 1, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1995, pp. 30-33.