''Aloe volkensii'' is a species of
plant widely distributed in East Africa.
Description
''Aloe volkensii'' forms a tall, stiffly-erect stem, up to 4 meters tall. It occasionally develops an offset or two from its base.
The long (c.60 cm), slender, grey-green leaves are recurved. The leaves bear brown-tipped teeth on their margins. Dead leaves are persistent and remain on the stem just below the rosette (unlike those of the rare ''
Aloe ballyi
''Aloe ballyi'' (the "rat aloe") is a species of flowering plant in the family Asphodelaceae, native to Kenya and Tanzania.
Description
This species of ''Aloe'' forms tall, slender stems of up to 6 meters. The leaves are long, slender, and most ...
''). The leaves of juvenile plants have occasional pale spots. Its orange-red flowers are 35mm long, and born on subcapitate racemes, on an erect inflorescence with up to ten branches from lower on the inflorescence.
Distribution
This species occurs from southern
Kenya, across almost all of
Tanzania,
[Note:]
Tanzania Aloe endemics: ''A. babatiensis, boscawenii, brachystachys, brandhamii, bukobana, bullockii, bussei, congdonii, dorotheae, flexilifolia, leachii, leedalii, leptosiphon, massawana, pembana, richardsiae.''
Tanzania Aloe indigenous: ''A. parvidens; lateritia; secundiflora; rabaiensis; volkensii; wollastonii; macrosiphon; ballyi, confusa, deserti, elata, fibrosa, morijensis, ngongensis; bicomitum, fimbrialis, veseyi; duckeri; mzimbana; bulbicaulis, nuttii; christianii; mawii; chabaudii; myriacantha'' and as far west as
Rwanda
Rwanda (; rw, u Rwanda ), officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator ...
and
Uganda. It grows in dry bushveld, usually on rocky slopes.
References
Notes
volkensii
Flora of Kenya
Flora of Tanzania
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