Aeonium valverdense
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Aeonium valverdense is a species of the genus Aeonium in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aeonium valverdense grows as a perennial , little branched subshrub and reaches heights of up to 1 meter. The bare, net-like patterned, ascending shoots have a diameter of 10 to 20 millimeters and are usually in groups. Their rather flat rosettes reach a diameter of 12 to 25 centimeters. Inner leaves are ascending. The obovate green to yellowish green, slightly downy-haired leaves are 6 to 12 inches long, 4 to 6 inches wide and 0.5 to 0.8 inches thick. They are pointed towards the tip and sometimes have an attached tip. The base is wedge-shaped. The edge of the leaf is covered with more or less straight or sometimes curved eyelashes that are 0.8 to 1.2 millimeters long. The leaves are often pink variegated .
Generative characteristics
The dome-shaped inflorescence has a length of 10 to 30 centimeters and a width of 10 to 25 centimeters. The inflorescence stalk is 5 to 30 centimeters long. The seven- to nine-fold flowers are on a 2 to 4 millimeter long, slightly downy-haired flower stalk . Your sepals are weakly downy hairy. The whitish, often pink or reddish variegated, lanceolate, pointed petals are 10 to 12 millimeters long and 2 to 2.5 millimeters wide. The stamens are weakly downy hairy.
Systematics and distribution
Aeonium valverdense is widespread on El Hierro at heights of up to 800 meters.
The first description as Sempervivum valverdense by Robert Lloyd Praeger was published in 1925. In 1928 he placed the species in the genus Aeonium .
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literature
- Reto Nyffeler: Aeonium valverdense . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 20 .
Individual evidence
- ^ R. Lloyd Praeger: Notes On Canarian And Madeiran Semperviva . In: Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh . Volume 29, 1925, p. 208 ( doi: 10.1080 / 03746602709469420 ).
- ^ Journal of Botany, British and Foreign . Volume 66, 1928, p. 222.
