Aeonium castello-paivae
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Aeonium castello-paivae is a species of the genus Aeonium in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aeonium castello-paivae grows as a perennial , densely branched small shrub and reaches heights of up to 70 centimeters. The smooth, felty, ascending or hanging, winding shoots have a diameter of 3 to 8 millimeters. Their rather flat rosettes reach a diameter of 3 to 7 centimeters. Their inner leaves are more or less upright. The obovate-spatulate, pale green to yellowish green, bluish, almost bare leaves are 1.5 to 3.5 centimeters long, 0.8 to 2 centimeters wide and 0.2 to 0.3 centimeters thick. Towards the tip they are pointed to tailed. The base is wedge-shaped. The leaves are usually variegated with a few reddish stripes. The edge of the leaf is covered with some fairly straight eyelashes that are up to 0.2 inches long.
Generative characteristics
The loose, hemispherical inflorescence has a length of 6 to 20 centimeters and a width of 6 to 20 centimeters. The inflorescence stalk is 7 to 25 inches long. The seven to nine-fold flowers are on a 1 to 2 millimeter long, slightly downy-haired pedicel . Your sepals are weakly downy hairy. The greenish white, lanceolate, pointed petals are 8 to 10 millimeters long and 1 to 1.5 millimeters wide. The stamens are weakly downy hairy.
Chromosome number
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 36.
Systematics and distribution
Aeonium castello-paivae is common on La Gomera at heights of 200 to 900 meters.
The first description by Carl August Bolle was published in 1859.
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literature
- Reto Nyffeler: Aeonium castello-paivae . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 14-15 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aeonium castello-paivae at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ^ Bonplandia . Volume 7, 1859, p. 240 ( online ).
