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Aloes and Lilies of Ethiopia and Eritrea

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78 ALOACEAE<br />

Fig. 37. Aloe<br />

percrassa,<br />

between Edago<br />

Hamus <strong>and</strong><br />

Gundo Gundo,<br />

Tigray floristic<br />

region.<br />

Habitat <strong>and</strong><br />

distribution<br />

Aloe debrana<br />

The species grows in sparsely vegetated rocky slopes<br />

<strong>and</strong> outcrops between 2100 <strong>and</strong> 2700 m in Tigray <strong>and</strong><br />

Gonder regions in Rthiopia <strong>and</strong> also in <strong>Eritrea</strong>. It is so<br />

far not known anywhere else. The main flowering period<br />

is from September to October, so me times also in March<br />

to April.<br />

22. Aloe debrana Christian<br />

The specific epithet ‘debrana’ refers to the locality (Debre<br />

Berhan in the Shewa Region) <strong>of</strong> the plant on which<br />

the description <strong>of</strong> the species was based. In Amharic<br />

language Debre Berhan refers to the ‘place <strong>of</strong> the light’,<br />

debre meaning place <strong>and</strong> berhan meaning light. The<br />

living plant was collected by McLoughlin, cultivated in<br />

Pretoria, <strong>and</strong> the species was described in 1947.

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