Aeonium korneliuslemsii

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Aeonium korneliuslemsii
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Aeonium korneliuslemsii

Systematics
Order : Saxifragales (Saxifragales)
Family : Thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae)
Subfamily : Sempervivoideae
Tribe : Aeonieae
Genre : Aeonium
Type : Aeonium korneliuslemsii
Scientific name
Aeonium korneliuslemsii
HYLiu

Aeonium korneliuslemsii is a species of the genus Aeonium in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aeonium korneliuslemsii grows as a perennial , little branched subshrub and reaches heights of up to 1.5 meters. The smooth, bare, more or less upright to ascending shoots have a diameter of 10 to 20 millimeters and often form groups. Their rosettes reach a diameter of 5 to 17 centimeters and are flattened in the middle. Young leaves are tightly pressed together. The obovate or spatulate, pale green to yellowish green, slightly downy-haired leaves are 4 to 9 centimeters long, 2 to 3 centimeters wide and 0.15 to 0.3 centimeters thick. They are trimmed or rounded towards the tip. The base is wedge-shaped. The edge of the leaf is covered with straight or curved eyelashes that are 0.4 to 1 millimeter long.

Generative characteristics

The inflorescence has a length of 5 to 20 centimeters and a width of 5 to 18 centimeters. The inflorescence stalk is 10 to 13 inches long. The seven to nine-fold flowers are on a 3 to 8 millimeter long, slightly downy-haired pedicel . Your sepals are sparsely to clearly weakly downy hairy. The yellow, lanceolate, elliptical, pointed, occasionally edged petals are 4.5 to 6 millimeters long and 1.5 to 2.5 millimeters wide. The stamens are bare.

Chromosome number

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 72.

Systematics and distribution

Aeonium korneliuslemsii is common in the southwest of Morocco .

The first description by Ho-Yih Liu was published in 1989.

The species name honors the Dutch-American botanist Kornelius Lems (1931–1968).

A nomenclatory synonym is Aeonium arboreum subsp. korneliuslemsii (HYLiu) Dobignard (2011).

proof

literature

  • Reto Nyffeler: Aeonium korneliuslemsii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 17 .

Individual evidence

  1. Aeonium korneliuslemsii at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
  2. Ho-Yih Liu: Systematics of Aeonium (Crassulaceae) . Special Publication Number 3, National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan 1989, p. 63.
  3. Urs Eggli , Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. Page 128, 2004. ISBN 3-540-00489-0
  4. ^ Index synonymique de la flore d'Afrique du Nord . Volume 3, 2011, p. 354.

Web links

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