Aloe zakamisyi
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Aloe zakamisyi is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet zakamisyi honors Mr. Zakamisy, who showed the first description the way to the place where the plants grew.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe zakamisyi grows trunk-forming, is branched and forms large groups. The trunks reach a length of up to 45 centimeters and are 1.5 centimeters thick. The eight to twelve spread to outstretched, narrow deltoid leaves are runny and have recurved tips. The dark green, slightly bluish tinge of the leaf is 40 centimeters long and 1.5 centimeters wide. The white teeth on the edge of the leaf are 3 millimeters long and 10 millimeters apart. The pale yellow leaf juice dries almost clear.
Inflorescences and flowers
The simple inflorescence reaches a length of up to 28 centimeters. The rather loose, conical-cylindrical grapes are about 12 centimeters long. The white, brown-veined bracts are 8 to 10 millimeters long. The cylindrical, slightly curved, bright red flowers stand on 6 millimeter long, red pedicels . The flowers are 24 millimeters long. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 4 millimeters. They are then narrowed towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of about 3 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand out from 1 to 3 millimeters from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe zakamisyi is common in Madagascar in the Antsiranana province on porous limestone at heights of 150 meters. The species is only known from the locality of the type.
The first description by Thomas A. McCoy and John Jacob Lavranos was published in 2007.
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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. 571 .
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.
- ↑ Tom McCoy, John Lavranos: Aloe zakamisyi (Aloaceae), a new aloe from a Tsingy area in Madagascar In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 58, Number 10, 2007, pp. 257-259.
Web links
- Photo by Aloe Zakamisyi
- Herbarium evidence