Aeonium stuessyi

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

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

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aeonium stuessyi grows as a perennial , little branched small shrub and reaches stature heights of up to 2 meters. The smooth, bare, ascending to prostrate shoots have a diameter of 10 to 20 millimeters and often form groups. Their rosettes reach a diameter of 10 to 20 centimeters and are flattened in the middle. Young leaves are tightly pressed together. The obscure to obovate-spatulate, yellowish green to dark green, slightly downy-haired leaves are 5 to 12 centimeters long, 2.5 to 3.5 centimeters wide and 0.3 to 0.5 centimeters thick. Towards the point they are pointed or pointed. 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. The leaves are reddish usually along the edge variegat .

Generative characteristics

The inflorescence has a length of 8 to 18 centimeters and a width of 8 to 18 centimeters. The inflorescence stalk is 3 to 15 inches long. The seven- to eleven-fold flowers are on a 1 to 6 millimeter long, sparsely fuzzy-haired pedicel . Their sepals are sparsely fuzzy hairy. The yellow, reddish-lined, obovate or elliptical, trimmed petals are 7 to 8 millimeters long and 1.5 to 2.5 millimeters wide. The stamens are bare.

Systematics and distribution

Aeonium stuessyi is found in Ethiopia , Kenya and Tanzania at altitudes of 2000 to 3000 meters.

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

The species name honors the American botanist Tod Falor Stuessy (* 1943).

proof

literature

Reto Nyffeler: Aeonium stuessyi . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 20 .

Individual evidence

↑ Ho-Yih Liu: Systematics of Aeonium (Crassulaceae) . Special Publication Number 3, National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan 1989, pp. 77-78.
↑ Urs Eggli , Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. Page 230, 2004. ISBN 3-540-00489-0

[1] Ho-Yih Liu: Systematics of Aeonium (Crassulaceae) . Special Publication Number 3, National Museum of Natural Science, Taichung, Taiwan 1989, pp. 77-78.

[2] Urs Eggli , Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer-Verlag Berlin, Heidelberg, New York. Page 230, 2004. ISBN 3-540-00489-0