Aeonium goochiae
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Aeonium goochiae is a species of the genus Aeonium in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aeonium goochiae grows as a perennial , densely branched small shrub and reaches heights of up to 40 centimeters. The smooth, downy-haired, slightly sticky shoots are not patterned like a net and have a diameter of 2 to 10 millimeters. Their rather flat rosettes reach a diameter of 3 to 12 centimeters. Inner leaves are more or less upright. The elliptical or round, pale green to yellowish green, felty, sticky leaves are 1.5 to 5 inches long, 1.5 to 2.5 inches wide and 0.1 to 0.2 inches thick. Towards the point they are rounded or pointed and edged. The base is wedge-shaped. The leaves are sometimes reddish variegated .
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence consists of racemose panicles . It has a length of 2 to 5 centimeters and a width of 3 to 11 centimeters. The inflorescence stalk is 1 to 2 inches long. The seven to eight-fold flowers are on a 1 to 15 millimeter long, slightly downy-haired pedicel . Their sepals are glandular-downy hairy. The very pale yellow or whitish, lanceolate, pointed petals are 5 to 7 millimeters long and 1 to 2 millimeters wide. In the middle part they are often pink variegated. The stamens are bare.
Chromosome number
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 36.
Systematics and distribution
Aeonium goochiae is common in the north of La Palma at altitudes of 500 to 1100 meters.
The first description by Philip Barker Webb and Sabin Berthelot was published in 1841. A nomenclatory synonym is Sempervivum goochiae (Webb & Berthel.) Christ (1888).
The species name honors the mother of Philip Barker Webb , Mrs. Gooch.
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literature
- Reto Nyffeler: Aeonium goochiae . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 16-17 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aeonium goochiae at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ Phytographia canariensis . Volume 1, Part 1, 1840, pp. 190-191 ( online ).
- ↑ Urs Eggli , Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 96.
