Aloe ballyi
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Aloe ballyi is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodil family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet ballyi honors the Swiss botanist Peter René Oscar Bally (1895–1980).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe ballyi grows easily and in a stem-forming manner. The upright trunks reach a length of 5 to 6 meters and a diameter of 10 to 15 centimeters. The lanceolate and long narrowed-pointed leaves form dense rosettes . Young leaves are spread out, later they are strongly bent back. The gray-green leaf blade is 90 centimeters long and 14 centimeters wide. The leaf surface is smooth. The piercing, occasionally hooked, white teeth on the leaf margin are 4 to 5 millimeters long and 10 to 15 millimeters apart. The colorless leaf sap is poisonous. Its strong smell is reminiscent of rats or mice.
Inflorescences and flowers
The somewhat crooked inflorescence consists of about 20 branches and reaches a length of 60 centimeters. The loose grapes are up to 14 centimeters long. Terminal grapes are cylindrical, lateral ones consist of about 20 almost to completely one-sided flowers. The ovate-pointed bracts have a length of 5 millimeters and are 5 millimeters wide. The carmine-red to reddish orange flowers are tipped green and stand on 10 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are 33 millimeters long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 9 millimeters. They are only slightly narrowed above this. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 22 millimeters. The stamens and the pen stand out 4 to 5 millimeters from the flower.
genetics
The number of chromosomes is .
Systematics and distribution
Aloe ballyi is common in southeastern Kenya and northeastern Tanzania in dense bush and river bank thickets at altitudes of 900 to 1500 meters.
The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1953.
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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. 685 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe Ballyi . 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. 22.
- ^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 19, number 1, Kirstenbosch 1953, p. 2.
Web links
- Aloe ballyi inthe IUCN 2013 Red List of Threatened Species . Posted by: Eastern Arc Mountains & Coastal Forests CEPF Plant Assessment Project Participants, 2008. Retrieved September 15, 2013.