Aeonium leucoblepharum
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Aeonium leucoblepharum is a species of the genus Aeonium in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aeonium leucoblepharum grows as a perennial , densely branched subshrub and reaches heights of up to 2 meters. The bald, smooth, ascending or prostrate-ascending shoots have a diameter of 7 to 20 millimeters. Their rosettes , flattened in the middle, reach a diameter of 10 to 20 centimeters. The obscure lanceolate or obovate-spatulate, yellowish green to dark green, almost bare leaves are 5 to 12 centimeters long, 1.5 to 3.5 centimeters wide and 0.2 to 0.5 centimeters thick. They are pointed 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 centimeter long. The leaves are reddish usually along the edge variegat .
Generative characteristics
The egg to dome-shaped inflorescence has a length of 8 to 18 centimeters and a width of 8 to 15 centimeters. The inflorescence stalk is 3 to 15 inches long. The seven to ten-fold flowers are on a 1 to 6 millimeter long, slightly downy-haired pedicel . Their sepals are sparsely fuzzy hairy. The yellow, sometimes red variegated, elliptical or lanceolate, bluntly rounded petals are 6 to 8 millimeters long and 1.8 to 2.5 millimeters wide. The stamens are glabrous to sparsely fuzzy haired.
Chromosome number
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 36.
Systematics and distribution
Aeonium leucoblepharum is distributed in Yemen , Ethiopia , Somalia , Kenya and Uganda at altitudes of about 2000 to 3500 meters.
The first description by Achille Richard was published in 1848.
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literature
- Reto Nyffeler: Aeonium leucoblepharum . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 17-18 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aeonium leucoblepharum at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ Tentamen Florae Abyssinicae see Enumeratio Plantarum hucusque in plerisque Abyssiniae . Volume 1, 1848, p. 314 ( online ).
