Aeonium decorum
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Aeonium decorum is a species of the genus Aeonium in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aeonium decorum grows as a perennial , densely branched small shrub and reaches heights of up to 60 centimeters. The bare, net-like patterned, ascending or hanging, winding shoots have a diameter of 5 to 8 millimeters. Their rather flat rosettes reach a diameter of 5 to 10 centimeters. The obovate to lanceolate, dark green to yellowish green, bluish tinged, felty leaves are 2.5 to 5 centimeters long, 1 to 1.5 centimeters wide and 0.25 to 0.45 centimeters thick. They are pointed towards the tip. The base is wedge-shaped. The edge of the leaf is covered with a few scattered eyelashes that are up to 0.5 centimeters long. The leaves are often reddish variegated along the edge .
Generative characteristics
The loose, cylindrical inflorescence has a length of 8 to 30 centimeters and a width of 8 to 20 centimeters. The inflorescence stalk is 10 to 30 centimeters long. The six to eight-fold flowers are on a 2 to 10 millimeter long, slightly downy-haired pedicel . Your sepals are weakly downy hairy. The whitish, often pink or reddish variegated, lanceolate, pointed petals are 7 to 8 millimeters long and 2 to 2.5 millimeters wide. The stamens are sparsely weakly downy-haired.
Systematics and distribution
Aeonium decorum is common on La Gomera and Tenerife at heights of 100 to 900 meters.
The first description by Carl August Bolle was published in 1859.
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literature
- Reto Nyffeler: Aeonium decorum . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 15 .
