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Aloe ballii is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet ballii honors the forest officer John Stanhope Ball (1926–1976) from Zimbabwe .
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe ballii grows trunk-forming, is richly branched and forms up to 50 rosettes . The spirally wound shoots hang on steep rocks. They are 1 to 1.5 meters long and 9 millimeters in diameter. The two-line leaves are triangular-pointed. Their green leaf blades are 8 to 12 inches long and 1 inch wide. The leaf surface is covered with white or light green elongated spots near the base. The tiny white teeth are 2 to 4 millimeters apart. They are missing towards the tip of the leaf.
Inflorescences and flowers
The simple, oblique to horizontal or downwardly curved inflorescence reaches a length of 50 to 60 centimeters. The rather loose, cylindrically narrowed grapes are 12 to 44 centimeters long and 4 centimeters wide. They consist of 40 to 50 flowers . The ovate-pointed bracts have a length of 3 millimeters and are 2 millimeters wide. The fiery red to light reddish orange, slightly bell-shaped flowers are on 14 to 20 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 12 to 16 millimeters long and narrowed briefly at their base. At the level of the ovary they have a diameter of 4 millimeters, above they are widened to the wide mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the stylus do not protrude from the flower.
genetics
The number of chromosomes is .
Systematics and distribution
Aloe ballii is common in Mozambique and Zimbabwe . Aloe ballii var. Ballii grows in the cracks of rock surfaces at altitudes of 380 to 400 meters. Aloe ballii var. Makurupiniensis grows in open, grassy woodland on quartz ribs and slopes at altitudes of 400 to 900 meters.
The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1964. A distinction is made between the following varieties :
- Aloe ballii var. Ballii
- Aloe ballii var. Makurupiniensis Ellert
Aloe ballii var. Makurupiniensis
The differences to Aloe ballii var. Ballii are: it grows upright, is almost stemless with up to twelve rosettes. The leaves are up to 48.5 inches long. The upright inflorescence reaches a height of up to 73 centimeters. The first description of this variety by Anthon FN Ellert was published in 1998.
Danger
Aloe ballii is in the endangered Red List species the IUCN as " Endangered (EN) ," d. H. classified as endangered.
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literature
- Susan Carter , John J. Lavranos , Leonard E. Newton , Colin C. Walker : Aloes. The definitive guide . Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2011, ISBN 978-1-84246-439-7 , pp. 130-131 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe andongensis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 113 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 21.
- ^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 30, number 3, Kirstenbosch 1964, pp. 123-125.
- ^ Anthon FN Ellert: Aloe ballii Reynolds : In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 70, Number 3, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1998, pp. 129-131.
- ↑ Aloe ballii in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2012. Posted by: World Conservation Monitoring Center, 1998. Accessed August 7, 2012 found.
