Aloe comosa
Aloe comosa
Aloe comosa is a species of the genus Aloe in the subfamily Asphodelus ( Asphodeloideae ). The specific epithet comosa comes from the Latin, it means, clump -like ' and refers to the Brakteenbüschel to the inflorescence tips.
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- 3.2 Notes and references
Description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe comosa grows individually and stem -forming. The stems are up to 2 meters long and covered with the persistent remains of dead leaves. The lanceolate - sword-shaped leaves form dense rosettes. The leaf blade is up to 65 centimeters long and 12 centimeters wide. Your glauken to some brownish reddish pink top is lined indistinct. The underside is bluish green. The brownish redden teeth on pink reddish leaf edge are 1 to 2 millimeters long and are 5 to 10 millimeters apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The most simple inflorescence reaches a length of up to 2 meters. Occasionally a branch is formed. The dense, narrow cylindrical grapes are 100 inches long and 8 inches wide. The lanceolate bracts are tapered and are 40 millimeters long. In the bud stage they are arranged like bricks and tufted at the inflorescence tip. The usually pinkish- cream to reddish pink ivory, occasionally deep pink and frosted flowers are at about 20 millimeters long, almost upright flower stems and bulbous. The flowers are up to 40 millimeters long and very short narrowed at its base. About the ovary, they are expanded in the middle of a diameter of 12 millimeters and then narrows towards the muzzle. Your outer tepals are fused together to about 20 mm length. The stamens and the style protrude 10 to 12 millimeters from the flower.
Genetics
The chromosome number is.
Systematics, distribution and hazard
Aloe comosa is widely used in South Africa's Western Cape province of hills and valley sides.
The first description by Rudolf Marloth and Alwin Berger was published in 1905.
About the threat of Aloe comosa are on the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN insufficient data.