Aeonium davidbramwellii
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Aeonium davidbramwellii is a species of the genus Aeonium in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aeonium davidbramwellii grows as a perennial , little branched subshrub and reaches heights of up to 100 centimeters. The bare, net-like patterned, ascending shoots have a diameter of 7 to 25 millimeters. Their rather flat rosettes reach a diameter of 6 to 22 centimeters. The obovate to lanceolate-spatulate, dark green to yellowish green, slightly downy-haired leaves are 3 to 12 centimeters long, 2 to 4 centimeters wide and 0.2 to 0.6 centimeters thick. They are pointed towards the tip. The base is narrowed or wedge-shaped. The edge of the leaf is covered with conical eyelashes that are up to 0.5 centimeters long. The leaves are often reddish or brownish variegated along the edge .
Generative characteristics
The approximately egg-shaped inflorescence has a length of 10 to 35 centimeters and a width of 8 to 25 centimeters. The inflorescence stalk is 5 to 25 inches long. The six to eight-fold flowers are on a 1 to 4 millimeter long, slightly downy-haired pedicel . Your sepals are weakly downy hairy. The whitish, usually greenish variegated, lanceolate, pointed petals are 6.5 to 9 millimeters long and 1.5 to 2.5 millimeters wide. The stamens are weakly downy hairy.
Chromosome number
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 36.
Systematics and distribution
Aeonium davidbramwellii is widespread on La Palma at heights of up to 1000 meters.
The first description by Ho-Yih Liu was published in 1989.
The species name honors the British botanist in Tafira Alta, Gran Canaria, David Bramwell (* 1942).
proof
literature
- Reto Nyffeler: Aeonium davidbramwellii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 15 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aeonium davidbramwellii at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ Ho-Yih Liu: Systematics of Aeonium (Crassulaceae) . Special Publication Number 3, National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan 1989, pp. 88-89.
- ↑ Urs Eggli , Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 61
