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: no. 3 on first page headed “ALO ALO”) ×
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—Plants of
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are small to medium-sized and, in size, closer to
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than to
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. The stems of
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are horizontally growing to pendent, so more closely approximating those of
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, while
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has stems that are typically erect to leaning. In stem length, too,
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that are generally stouter and can grow to a greater length. The leaves of
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<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680254449BDCE91F6198F8F3" box="[444,460,1891,1914]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="253">A</emphasis>
. ×
<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680254449B88E91F6220F8F3" box="[488,628,1891,1914]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="253">engelbrechtii</emphasis>
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are down-curved to slightly and haphazardly horizontally spreading; those of
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<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680254449AE8E9FB60BDF817" box="[136,233,1927,1950]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="253">A. hardyi</emphasis>
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are often fully down-curved, while those of
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<emphasis id="B90FEAE46802544498DBE9FB630DF817" box="[699,857,1927,1950]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="253">A. arborescens</emphasis>
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are horizontally spreading to obliquely down-curved. In
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<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680254449AE8E9D760CCF84B" box="[136,152,1963,1986]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="253">A</emphasis>
. ×
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the terminal leaf portions sometimes dry early, as is found in
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<emphasis id="B90FEAE46802544499ACE9D7647AF84B" box="[972,1070,1963,1986]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="253">A. hardyi</emphasis>
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, while in the case of
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<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680254449F6DE9D765FFF84B" box="[1293,1451,1963,1986]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="253">A. arborescens</emphasis>
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this feature is much rarer. As in the case of both parents, the leaves of
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<emphasis id="B90FEAE46802544499C1E9B363E5F86F" box="[929,945,1999,2022]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="253">A</emphasis>
. ×
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are unspotted. As found in
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<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680254449FF4E9B36099F783" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="253">A. hardyi</emphasis>
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, the inflorescences of
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<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680254449BD8E98F619CF783" box="[440,456,2035,2058]" italics="true" pageId="1" pageNumber="253">A</emphasis>
. ×
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are rather short, laxly- to subdensely-flowered racemes, and much more rarely paniculate. In the case of
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<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680154479BFAEEDC626DFF3E" box="[410,569,160,183]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="254">A. arborescens</emphasis>
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the racemes are larger, often densely flowered, and distinctly conical. The buds of
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<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680154479AE8EEB860CCFF52" box="[136,152,196,219]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="254">A</emphasis>
. ×
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are reddish orange and dark green-tipped; the open flowers are uniformly reddish orange, pencil-shaped, and pendulous.
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<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680154479B50EE946135FF76" box="[304,353,232,255]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="254">Aloe</emphasis>
×
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shares these character states with its parents,
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<emphasis id="B90FEAE468015447998AEE9464DDFF76" box="[1002,1161,232,255]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="254">A. arborescens</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680154479EDDEE946574FF76" box="[1213,1312,232,255]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="254">A. hardyi</emphasis>
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.
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<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680154479AE8EBF56155FA17" bold="true" box="[136,257,1417,1438]" pageId="2" pageNumber="254">FIGURE 3.</emphasis>
Ben Engelbrecht who is commemorated in
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<emphasis id="B90FEAE46801544798DCEBF562BCFA17" box="[700,744,1417,1438]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="254">Aloe</emphasis>
×
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. Photograph taken on 26 November 2019 by Gideon F. Smith.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680154479ADDEB88611EF982" bold="true" box="[189,330,1524,1547]" pageId="2" pageNumber="254">Description:</emphasis>
—Plants small to medium-sized, horizontally-growing to growing vertically downwards, branched from the base.
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long, clothed in somewhat twisted, variously down-curved, dry leaves that are eventually shed.
<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680154479AE8E8406086F9DA" box="[136,210,1596,1619]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="254">Leaves</emphasis>
rosulate, lanceolate, sickle-shaped, down-curved to slightly and haphazardly horizontally spreading, light green to glaucous,
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long, 3.54.0 cm wide at the base, terminal ¼ dry, twisted; both
<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680154479E41E81C642EF9FE" box="[1057,1146,1632,1655]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="254">surfaces</emphasis>
smooth, unspotted;
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concolorous, armed with stiff but harmless, ivory-coloured to concolorous teeth,
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long,
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apart, straight or slightly to distinctly curved towards leaf apex;
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translucent.
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a raceme, rarely paniculate, one produced per flowering season,
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tall, gracefully curved upwards.
<emphasis id="B90FEAE46801544799A6E8B0647DF96A" box="[966,1065,1740,1763]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="254">Peduncle</emphasis>
thin, with several scattered, sterile bracts lower down;
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±
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long, drying rapidly, light brown, elongated-triangular.
<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680154479EF8E88C64A3F88E" box="[1176,1271,1776,1799]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="254">Racemes</emphasis>
conical,
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long, ±
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wide where flowers are at anthesis, usually subdensely-flowered;
<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680154479E47E968640DF8A2" box="[1063,1113,1812,1835]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="254">buds</emphasis>
erect to horizontally spreading just before anthesis, flowers pendulous at anthesis.
<emphasis id="B90FEAE46801544798C5E9446366F8C6" box="[677,818,1848,1871]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="254">Floral bracts</emphasis>
elongated-triangular, strongly clasping the pedicel and base of flower, more elongated than sterile bracts.
<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680154479815E9206298F8FA" box="[629,716,1884,1907]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="254">Flowers</emphasis>
pedicellate, copiously nectariferous;
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long, light green;
<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680154479AB0E9FC617EF81E" box="[208,298,1920,1943]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="254">perianth</emphasis>
buds reddish orange and dark green-tipped;
<emphasis id="B90FEAE468015447989EE9FC63D2F81E" box="[766,902,1920,1943]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="254">open flowers</emphasis>
uniformly reddish orange, tips of perianth segments dark green, ±
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long, ±
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across ovary, very slightly widening above ovary, ± straight, pencil-shaped, very slightly narrowing towards the mouth, the middle and apical ½ cylindrical, tips spreading to very slightly flared, outer segments free for their entire lengths;
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with filiform-flattened filaments, included and exserted part uniformly light yellow, exserted for up to
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;
<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680154479B8BE66C626FF7AE" box="[491,571,2064,2087]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="254">anthers</emphasis>
orange;
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long,
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in diameter, light green;
<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680154479EBDE66C655AF7AE" box="[1245,1294,2064,2087]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="254">style</emphasis>
well-exserted, included and exserted parts uniformly light yellow;
<emphasis id="B90FEAE46800544698D3EEDC62AEFF3E" box="[691,762,160,183]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="255">stigma</emphasis>
small, hardly capitate, yellowish white.
<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680054469ECCEEDC64B7FF3E" box="[1196,1251,160,183]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="255">Fruit</emphasis>
not seen.
<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680054469F30EEDC65D6FF3E" box="[1360,1410,160,183]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="255">Seed</emphasis>
not seen.
<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680054469AA5EEB861FEFF52" box="[197,426,196,219]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="255">Chromosome number</emphasis>
: unknown.
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<subSubSection id="C361657D680054469ADDEE946239FD02" pageId="3" pageNumber="255" type="etymology">
<paragraph id="8BC436F6680054469ADDEE946239FD02" blockId="3.[136,1452,160,651]" pageId="3" pageNumber="255">
<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680054469ADDEE946160FF76" bold="true" box="[189,308,232,255]" pageId="3" pageNumber="255">Eponymy:</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680054469B2FEE9461D4FF76" box="[335,384,232,255]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="255">Aloe</emphasis>
×
<emphasis id="B90FEAE4680054469BF9EE946271FF76" box="[409,549,232,255]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="255">engelbrechtii</emphasis>
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is named for Mr Barend “Ben” Engelbrecht (born Germiston,
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,
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,
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) (
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). Ben qualified with a Diploma in Forestry (1975, Saasveld), National Diplomas in Horticulture (1981) and Parks and Recreation Management (1983, both
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Technicon), and in Management Development (2000, Stellenbosch University). He initially held several positions in Forestry: at Storms River (1971), Saasveld (1972 1973), Mac-Mac, Wilgeboom, Mariepskop, and Isidenge, then as Training Forester at Concordia and Woodville, and later as Labour and Training Officer of the then Northern Transvaal Region (Louis Trichardt). This was followed by positions in Parks and Forests and horticulture at Wemmershoek Dam (Paarl), Kloofnek (
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Town), and Nuweland (
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Town). Thereafter Ben joined the National Botanical Institute, one of the forerunners of the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), and held positions as Estate Manager in the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden and as Curator of, first, the Karoo [later the Karoo Desert] and then the
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National Botanical Gardens, in both instances focussing on the development of these facilities. Ben then transferred to the Human Resources Division of SANBI and retired as Deputy Director: Human Resources in
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.
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