Aloe bakeri
Aloe bakeri
Aloe bakeri is a species of the genus Aloe in the subfamily Asphodelus ( Asphodeloideae ). The specific epithet honors the British bakeri botanist John Gilbert Baker.
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Description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe bakeri grows stem -forming, branched, forming dense clumps with up to 100 drives and more. The shoots are 10 to 20 centimeters long and 0.5 to 0.7 inches wide. The approximately twelve triangular, tapered - pointed leaves are arranged scattered on 5 to 7 inches in length. The green, reddish suffused leaf blade is 7 inches long and 8 mm wide. At the leaf surface are occasionally pale green spots. The solid white teeth on the leaf margin are 1 mm long and are 1 to 2 millimeters apart. The leaf sheaths are 5 to 10 millimeters long.
Inflorescences and flowers
The simple inflorescence reaches a height of 25 to 30 centimeters. The loose, almost capitate grapes are 3 to 4 inches long. They consist of eight to ten flowers. The egg-shaped, pointed bracts have a length of 3 mm and 1.5 mm wide. The at its base reddish apricot colored flowers are also orange and yellow towards the mouth. The tail is tipped green. The flowers are at 10 to 12 mm long pedicles. They are 23 millimeters long and short narrowed at its base. Above the ovary, the flowers are slightly narrowed. Towards the mouth they are extended. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the style protrude up to 1 millimeter from the flower.
Genetics
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Systematics, distribution and hazard
Aloe bakeri is widespread in Madagascar on shallow soils and in crevices on rocky hills at an altitude of 40 meters.
The first description by George Francis Scott Elliot was released in 1891. A synonym is nomenklatorisches Guillauminia bakeri (Scott -Elliot ) PVHeath (1994).
Aloe bakeri is out in Appendix I of the CITES Convention.