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Aloes and Lilies of Ethiopia and Eritrea

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142 ANTHERICACEAE<br />

Chlorophytum ducisaprutii<br />

Figur 74.<br />

Chlorophytum<br />

ducis-aprutii,<br />

in cultivation ,<br />

original material<br />

obtained from<br />

Bale floristic<br />

region.<br />

otherwise widespread in eastern tropical Africa south to<br />

Zimbabwe <strong>and</strong> Mozambique. Flowering time in <strong>Ethiopia</strong><br />

is April to May.<br />

4. Chlorophytum ducis-aprutii Chio venda<br />

The species epithet refers to the Italian Duce Aprut,<br />

whom Chiovenda wanted to honour, when describing the<br />

species in 1929, based on material from the Bale floristic<br />

region. It is distinguished from all other <strong>Ethiopia</strong>n<br />

Chlorophytum species by its size, 60–200 cm high. It has<br />

leaves all along the peduncle (like C. nubicum, which<br />

unlike C. ducis-aprutii produces the flowers before the<br />

leaves, <strong>and</strong> C. longifolium, which differs by its spicate,<br />

papillate inflorescence <strong>and</strong> bell-shaped flowers). It has

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