Aloe butiabana
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Aloe butiabana is a species of aloes in the subfamily of the Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet butiabana refers to the occurrence of the species near the port of Butiaba on Lake Albert .
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe butiabana grows stemless or rarely stem-forming, branched and forms large groups. The trunk reaches a length of up to 50 centimeters and is 7 centimeters thick. The up to 32 upright to spread out, bent back, lanceolate-pointed leaves form a rosette with a diameter of up to 150 centimeters. The medium green leaf blade is up to 95 inches long, 9 inches wide and 1.5 inches thick. The leaf surface is smooth. The stinging, deltoid, brick-red teeth on the red, often cartilaginous leaf margin are 3 to 4 millimeters long and 12 to 16 millimeters apart. The leaf sap is yellow.
Inflorescences and flowers
The upright inflorescence has eight to twelve (rarely 6 to 16) branches and reaches a length of up to 180 centimeters. The lowest of them are sometimes branched again. The rather dense grapes are cylindrical, up to 20 centimeters long and 5 centimeters wide. The triangular-pointed, light brown bracts have a length of 4 millimeters and are 3 millimeters wide. The red flowers turn yellow and are paler at the mouth. They stand on 9 to 10 millimeter long flower stalks . They are 26 to 30 millimeters long and cylindrical at their base. At the level of the ovary , the flowers have a diameter of 8 to 9 millimeters. Above that, they are narrowed to 6 millimeters in the middle. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 15 to 21 millimeters. The stamens protrude 3 to 6 mm and the stylus protrudes from 2 to 4 millimeters from the flower out.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe butiabana is common in Uganda in the Masindi and Kabarole districts .
The first description by Thomas C. Cole and Thomas G. Forrest was published in 2011.
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literature
- Thomas C. Cole, Thomas G. Forrest: Two New Aloe Species From Uganda . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 83, Number 1, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 2011, pp. 28-38 ( doi: 10.2985 / 0007-9367-83.1.28 ).