Aloe eminens

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

Aloe eminens is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The epithet eminens comes from Latin and means 'outstanding'.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe eminens grows trunk-forming and is irregularly branched. The upright trunks are up to 15 meters long and reach a diameter of 15 centimeters at their base. The 16 to 20 triangular-obtuse, deeply rutted and bent back leaves form rosettes . The cloudy green leaf blade is 40 to 45 inches long and 5 to 8 inches wide. The leaf surface is smooth. The blunt, white teeth on the narrow, white, cartilaginous leaf margin are 2 to 3 millimeters long and 3 to 5 millimeters apart. They become smaller and insignificant towards the tip of the leaf. However, there are clustered tiny short teeth on the top 4 to 5 centimeters.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence consists of three to five branches and is 50 to 60 centimeters long. The rather dense, cylindrical, pointed grapes are 16 centimeters long and 8 to 9 centimeters wide. The deltoid bracts have a length of 6 millimeters and are 3 millimeters wide. The red flowers are on 10 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 40 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , they have a diameter of 12 millimeters. They are also slightly narrowed towards their mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 32 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand out 3 to 5 millimeters from the flower.

Systematics, distribution and endangerment

Aloe eminens is common in Somalia on wooded slopes at altitudes of 1550 to 1830 meters.

The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds and Peter René Oscar Bally was published in 1958. A synonym is Aloidendron eminens (Reynolds & probally) Klopper & Gideon F.Sm. (2013).

Aloe eminens is in the endangered Red List species the IUCN as " Near Threatened (NT) ", d. H. low risk, classified.

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. 694 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe eminens . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 135 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 76.
^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 24, Number 9, 1958, pp. 187-189.
↑ Olwen Megan Grace, Ronell R. Klopper, Gideon F. Smith, Neil R. Crouch, Estrela Figueiredo, Nina Ronsted, Abraham E. van Wyk: A revised generic classification for Aloe (Xanthorrhoeaceae subfam. Asphodeloideae) . In: Phytotaxa . Volume 76, number 1, 2013, pp. 7-14 ( doi: 10.11646 / phytotaxa.76.1.1 ).
↑ Aloe eminens in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2012. Posted by: Thulin, M., 1998. Accessed August 17, 2012th

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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. 76.

[2] Journal of South African Botany . Volume 24, Number 9, 1958, pp. 187-189.

[3] Olwen Megan Grace, Ronell R. Klopper, Gideon F. Smith, Neil R. Crouch, Estrela Figueiredo, Nina Ronsted, Abraham E. van Wyk: A revised generic classification for Aloe (Xanthorrhoeaceae subfam. Asphodeloideae) . In: Phytotaxa . Volume 76, number 1, 2013, pp. 7-14 ( doi: 10.11646 / phytotaxa.76.1.1 ).

[4] Aloe eminens in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2012. Posted by: Thulin, M., 1998. Accessed August 17, 2012th