Aloe vanbalenii

Aloe vanbalenii
	Aloe vanbalenii
Systematics
	Monocots
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Grass trees (Xanthorrhoeaceae)
Subfamily :	Affodilla family (Asphodeloideae)
Genre :	Aloes ( aloe )
Type :	Aloe vanbalenii
Scientific name
	Aloe vanbalenii
	Pillans

Aloe vanbalenii is a species of aloes ( Aloe ) in the subfamily of the Affodill family (Asphodeloideae). The specific epithet vanbalenii honors the horticulturist and former director of the parks in Johannesburg Jan C. van Balen (1894–1956), who discovered the species.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aloe vanbalenii grows stemless or short stem-forming, branched and forms dense groups. The trunk reaches a length of up to 30 centimeters. The 25 to 35, lanceolate narrowed, strongly bent back leaves form a dense rosette . Their green to copper-red, usually clearly lined leaf blades are 70 to 80 centimeters long and 12 to 25 centimeters wide. The piercing, reddish, broad deltoid teeth on the rather horny, reddish to reddish brown leaf margin are about 3 to 5 millimeters long and 10 to 15 millimeters apart.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence has two to three branches and is about 100 centimeters long. The rather dense, conical grapes are 25 to 30 centimeters long and 8 to 10 centimeters wide. The egg-shaped-pointed bracts have a length of 15 millimeters and are 7 millimeters wide. The usually rusty yellow, occasionally cloudy red flowers are up to 20 millimeters long peduncles . The flowers are about 35 millimeters long and briefly narrowed at their base. At the level of the ovary , they have a diameter of 7 millimeters. They are not narrowed above this and finally slightly widened towards the mouth. Your outer tepals are not fused together. The stamens and the pen stand out 10 to 12 millimeters from the flower.

Systematics and distribution

The first description by Neville Stuart Pillans was published in 1934.

Aloe vanbalenii is widespread in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the bordering Swaziland in the Lebombo Mountains on rock deposits in flat soils in the bushveld at heights of 300 to 600 meters.

proof

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. 431 .
Leonard Eric Newton: Aloe vanbalenii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 188 .

Individual evidence

↑ Gideon F. Smith, Colin C. Walker, Estrela Figueiredo: What's in a name: epithets in Aloe L. (Asphodelaceae) and what to call the next new species . In: Bradleya . Volume 28, 2010, p. 102.
^ South African Gardening . Volume 24, 1934, p. 25.

Web links

Commons : Aloe vanbalenii - collection of images, videos and audio files

Aloe vanbalenii in the Red List of South African Plants
Swaziland Flora Database
made-in-afrika.com

[1] Gideon F. Smith, Colin C. Walker, Estrela Figueiredo: What's in a name: epithets in Aloe L. (Asphodelaceae) and what to call the next new species . In: Bradleya . Volume 28, 2010, p. 102.

[2] South African Gardening . Volume 24, 1934, p. 25.