Aloe woodii
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Aloe woodii is a species of the genus Aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet woodii honors the British school inspector and amateur botanist John Richard Ironside Wood (* 1944).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe woodii usually grows without a stem or rarely with a short stem, is usually simple and rarely ramified. The 15 to 20 spread to ascending, very stiff, lanceolate narrowed leaves form a dense rosette . The glauke , yellowish tinged leaf blade is 45 to 50 centimeters long and 10 to 15 centimeters wide. The brown-tipped teeth on the leaf margin are 2 to 3 millimeters long and 8 to 20 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The upright inflorescence has up to ten, often more branched, branches and reaches a length of 80 to 100 centimeters. The rather dense grapes are cylindrical. The lanceolate bracts have a length of 15 to 18 millimeters and are 5 to 10 millimeters wide. The cream-colored to yellow, usually dense, white-felted flowers with green vertical stripes are on 7 to 10 millimeter long pedicels . They are 26 to 33 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 8 millimeters. In addition, they are not narrowed. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of about 10 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe woodii is common in Saudi Arabia and Yemen on open, stony ground or in juniper forests at altitudes of 2000 to 3000 meters.
The first description by John Jacob Lavranos and Iris Sheila Collenette was published in 2000.
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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. 349 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe woodii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 192 .
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 Jacob Lavranos, Iris Sheila Collenette: New aloes from Saudi Arabia: part 2 . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 72, Number 2, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 2000, p. 83.
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