Aloe suzannae
Aloe suzannae
Aloe suzannae is a plant of the genus of aloes in the subfamily Asphodelus ( Asphodeloideae ). The specific epithet honors suzannae Suzanne Decary, the daughter of Raymond and his wife Hélène Decary.
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- 4.2 Notes and references
Description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe suzannae growing stem -forming, is usually solitary or occasionally forming one or two shoots from. The stems are up to 4 meters high and 30 centimeters wide. The 60 to 100 lanceolate narrowed leaves form dense rosettes. In less than a meter they are enduring. The deep green leaf blade is 100 inches long and 8-9 inches wide. There are five to seven short teeth to their rounded tip. The leaf surface is very rough. The light brown, pungent teeth on the leaf margin are 2 millimeters long and are 8 to 10 millimeters apart. The leaf juice is dry deep brown orange.
Inflorescences and flowers
The simple inflorescence reaches a length of about 3 meters. The dense, cylindrical clusters are about 200 centimeters long and 17 centimeters wide. The linear - deltoids, green bracts have lighter edges and have a length of about 15 millimeters and 2 millimeters wide. The white ivory and light pink tinged flowers are at 28 to 30 mm long pedicles. They are 33 mm long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary, the flower has a diameter of 10 millimeters, about they are slightly narrowed. Your tip are spread. Your zurückgeschagenen tepals are not fused together over a length 16 to 17 millimeters. The stamens and the style protrude 10 mm from the flower. They are lemon yellow.
Genetics
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Ecology
The flowers of Aloe suzannae are open at night and smell. You may be pollinated by bats and lemurs.
Systematics, distribution and hazard
Aloe is suzannae widespread in southern Madagascar in dense bush heights of about 30 meters.
The first description by Raymond Decary was published in 1921.
Aloe suzannae be listed in Annex I of the CITES Convention. In the Red List of Threatened Species IUCN, the type is known as " Critically Endangered (CR ) ', ie classified threatened with extinction.