Aloe bullockii
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Aloe bullockii is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla plants (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet bullockii honors the British botanist Arthur Allman Bullock from the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe bullockii grows without a trunk, simply and geophytically . Their base is enlarged and forms an onion 3 to 4 centimeters in diameter. The thick roots are spindle-shaped. The eight to ten linear-lanceolate leaves form rosettes . The lined leaf blade is 10 to 20 inches long and 2 to 3 inches wide. The soft, light pink teeth on the narrow, cartilaginous leaf margin are 0.5 to 1 millimeter long and 0.5 to 1 millimeter apart.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence is simple or consists of a branch and reaches a length of 35 to 50 centimeters. The semi-dense, cylindrical grapes are 7 to 10 inches long and 5 inches wide. The ovoid-pointed, knocked back bracts have a length of 8 to 10 millimeters and are 5 to 6 millimeters wide. The light scarlet to coral red flowers are on 4 to 5 millimeter long peduncles . The flowers are up to 30 millimeters long and truncated at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 6 millimeters. Above that, they are narrowed to 4 millimeters, then widened and finally narrowed again towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 8 millimeters. The stamens and the stylus barely protrude from the flower.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe bullockii is widespread in the north-east of Tanzania in woodlands at altitudes of around 1220 meters.
The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1961.
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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. 118 .
- Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe bullockii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 120 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 34.
- ^ Journal of South African Botany . Volume 2, number 2, Kirstenbosch 1961, pp. 73-75.