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ALOE parvidens M. Gilbert & Sebsebe [family ALOACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by J. Lavranos [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ALOE parvidens M. Gilbert & Sebsebe [family ALOACEAE], (1992).
ALOE pirottae [family ALOACEAE], sensu auctt., non Berger.
Information
Plants with very short stem, usually in small groups. Leaves 12–16, sword-shaped, spreading or recurved, up to 40–50 x 8–9 cm, rather shiny, brown to greenish-brown, with numerous whitish spots; margins with whitish triangular teeth, 2–3 mm long, 10–15 mm apart. Inflorescences 100–150 cm long, with 5–10 branches; racemes cylindric, lax, to 15 cm long; bracts 5 x 4 mm; pedicels 5–7 mm long. Flowers pinkish, pendulous; perianth slightly curved, 30 mm long, 8 mm across the ovary, outer tepals free for 8 mm. Anthers exserted 2–3 mm. Stigma exserted 3–4 mm. Ovary green, 6 x 2.5 mm.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1–3
Altitude range
25–1300 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 10194, 10198; Reynolds 7103, 8392.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
N and E Kenya
Notes
Daar, dacar (Som.).
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by J. Lavranos [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ALOE parvidens M. Gilbert & Sebsebe [family ALOACEAE], (1992).
ALOE pirottae [family ALOACEAE], sensu auctt., non Berger.
Information
Plants with very short stem, usually in small groups. Leaves 12–16, sword-shaped, spreading or recurved, up to 40–50 x 8–9 cm, rather shiny, brown to greenish-brown, with numerous whitish spots; margins with whitish triangular teeth, 2–3 mm long, 10–15 mm apart. Inflorescences 100–150 cm long, with 5–10 branches; racemes cylindric, lax, to 15 cm long; bracts 5 x 4 mm; pedicels 5–7 mm long. Flowers pinkish, pendulous; perianth slightly curved, 30 mm long, 8 mm across the ovary, outer tepals free for 8 mm. Anthers exserted 2–3 mm. Stigma exserted 3–4 mm. Ovary green, 6 x 2.5 mm.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1–3
Altitude range
25–1300 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 10194, 10198; Reynolds 7103, 8392.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
N and E Kenya
Notes
Daar, dacar (Som.).
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by J. Lavranos [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ALOE parvidens M. Gilbert & Sebsebe [family ALOACEAE], (1992).
ALOE pirottae [family ALOACEAE], sensu auctt., non Berger.
Information
Plants with very short stem, usually in small groups. Leaves 12–16, sword-shaped, spreading or recurved, up to 40–50 x 8–9 cm, rather shiny, brown to greenish-brown, with numerous whitish spots; margins with whitish triangular teeth, 2–3 mm long, 10–15 mm apart. Inflorescences 100–150 cm long, with 5–10 branches; racemes cylindric, lax, to 15 cm long; bracts 5 x 4 mm; pedicels 5–7 mm long. Flowers pinkish, pendulous; perianth slightly curved, 30 mm long, 8 mm across the ovary, outer tepals free for 8 mm. Anthers exserted 2–3 mm. Stigma exserted 3–4 mm. Ovary green, 6 x 2.5 mm.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1–3
Altitude range
25–1300 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 10194, 10198; Reynolds 7103, 8392.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
N and E Kenya
Notes
Daar, dacar (Som.).
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