Aeonium tabuliforme

Aeonium tabuliforme
Aeonium tabuliforme
Systematics
Order : Saxifragales (Saxifragales) Family : Thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae) Subfamily : Sempervivoideae Tribe : Aeonieae Genre : Aeonium Type : Aeonium tabuliforme
Scientific name
Aeonium tabuliforme
( Haw. ) Webb & Berthel.

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

description

Vegetative characteristics

Aeonium tabuliforme grows as a biennial to perennial , single or very rarely sprouting, monocarpic rosette plant . Its short or almost absent, strong shoots are smooth. Their flat rosettes reach a diameter of 9 to 40 centimeters. All the leaves are brick-shaped and tightly pressed together. The obovate to lanceolate, initially slightly downy and then balding, pale to bright green leaves are 4 to 20 centimeters long, 2 to 4 centimeters wide and 0.3 to 0.6 centimeters thick. They are rounded towards the tip and have an attached tip. The base is wedge-shaped. The fringed edge of the leaf is covered with hairs that are 0.5 to 2 millimeters long.

Generative characteristics

The inflorescence has a length of 15 to 30 centimeters and a width of 12 to 30 centimeters. The inflorescence stalk is 12 to 30 centimeters long. The seven to nine-fold flowers are on a 2 to 20 millimeter long peduncle . Their sepals are downy-haired. The pale yellow, elliptical, pointed petals are 6 to 7 millimeters long and 1.5 to 2 millimeters wide. The stamens are bare.

Chromosome number

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 36.

Systematics and distribution

Aeonium tabuliforme is widespread in the north of Tenerife at altitudes of up to 850 meters.

The first description as Sempervivum tabuliforme by Adrian Hardy Haworth was published in 1819. Philip Barker Webb and Sabin Berthelot put the species in the genus Aeonium in 1840 .

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literature

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Aeonium tabuliforme at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
2. ^ Adrian Hardy Haworth: Supplementum Plantarum Succulentarum: Sistens Plantas Novas Vel Nuper Introductas Sive Omissas . In: Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum Cum Observationibus Variis Anglicanis . J. Harding, London 1819, p. 69 ( online ).
3. ↑ Philip Barker Webb, Sabin Berthelot: Histoire naturelle des îles Canaries . Volume 3, Part 2, Section 1, 1840, p. 185 ( online ).

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