Aloe albida
Aloe albida is a species of the genus Aloe in the subfamily Asphodelus ( Asphodeloideae ). The specific epithet albida comes from the Latin, means whitish ' and refers to the color of the flowers.
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Description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe albida grows individually and stemless with fusiform roots in the rule. The six to twelve linealischen leaves form rosettes. The dull green leaf blade is 10 to 15 inches long and 0.4 to 0.5 inches wide. The teeth on the leaf margin are 0.5 millimeters in length and is 1 millimeter apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The simple inflorescence reaches a length of 9 to 15 centimeters. The capitate clusters are 2 to 5 inches long and 5 inches wide. They consist of eight to 16 flowers. The oval - tapered bracts have a length of 10 to 15 millimeters. The dull creamy white, green tipped flowers stand at 10 to 15 mm long pedicles. The flowers are 18 mm long and narrowed at its base. About the ovary they are slightly tapered and terminate in a double lip mouth. Your tepals are not fused together. The stamens protrude up to 1 millimeter from the flower.
Genetics
The chromosome number is.
Systematics, distribution and hazard
Aloe albida is widely used in the South African province of Mpumalanga on stony ground or on rocks at high altitudes 1450-1520 meters.
The first description as Leptaloe albida by Otto Stapf was published in 1933. Gilbert Westacott Reynolds had the kind of 1947 in the genus Aloe. Synonyms are Aloe var kraussii minor Baker ( 1896), Aloe myriacantha var minor ( Baker) A.Berger (1908 ) and Aloe kraussii Schönland (1903, nom. Illeg. ICBN article 53.1 ).
Aloe albida is out in Appendix I of the CITES Convention.