Aloe ballyi
Aloe ballyi is a plant of the genus of aloes in the subfamily Asphodelus ( Asphodeloideae ). The specific epithet honors the ballyi Swiss botanist Peter René Oscar Bally ( 1895-1980 ).
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Description
Vegetative characteristics
Aloe ballyi growing stem -forming and easy. The upstanding stems reach a length of 5 to 6 meters and a diameter of 10 to 15 centimeters. The lanceolate and long - pointed narrowed leaves form dense rosettes. Young leaves are spread out, later they are strongly recurved. The gray-green leaf blade is 90 inches long and 14 inches wide. The leaf surface is smooth. The stabbing, occasionally hakigen, white teeth on the leaf margin are 4-5 millimeters long and are 10 to 15 millimeters apart. The colorless leaf juice is poisonous. His strong odor reminiscent of rats or mice.
Inflorescences and flowers
The slightly crooked inflorescence consists of about 20 branches and reaches a length of 60 centimeters. The loose clusters are up to 14 centimeters long. Terminal clusters are cylindrical, lateral consist of about 20 almost all the way einseitswendigen flowers. The ovoid - pointed bracts have a length of 5 mm and 5 mm wide. The carmine red to reddish orange flowers are tipped green and standing at 10 millimeters long pedicles. The flowers are 33 mm long and rounded at their base. At the level of the ovary, the flowers to a diameter of 9 mm. Moreover, they are only slightly narrowed. Your outer tepals are not fused together over a length of 22 millimeters. The stamens and the style protrude 4-5 mm from the flower.
Genetics
The chromosome number is.
Systematics and distribution
Aloe is ballyi widespread in southeastern Kenya and northeastern Tanzania in dense bush and riverside thickets at altitudes from 900 to 1500 meters.
The first description by Gilbert Westacott Reynolds was published in 1953.