Biology:Aloe fimbrialis

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Short description: Species of succulent plant

Aloe fimbrialis
Aloe fimbrialis.jpg
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Asphodelaceae
Subfamily: Asphodeloideae
Genus: Aloe
Species:
A. fimbrialis
Binomial name
Aloe fimbrialis
S.Carter

Aloe fimbrialis is a succulent plant species from Zambia and possibly Tanzania. A very unusual Aloe as it forms a caudex which can grow to five centimeters in diameter, the leaves grow up to ten centimeters long. The inflorescence can reach 90 centimeters in length and has coral-pink flowers. It usually grows on termite mounds. Aloe fimbrialis is a very rare aloe, first discovered in 1964 and formally described by Susan Carter Holmes in 1996[1] from a herbarium specimens. Graham Williamson rediscovered the species in 2002[2][3] on the border of Zambia and Angola, close to the source of the Zambezi River.

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q247167 entry