Aichryson bethencourtianum
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Aichryson bethencourtianum is a species of the genus Aichryson in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Aichryson bethencourtianum grows as a perennial , densely branched, fluffy small shrub and reaches heights of up to 15 centimeters. The hairy, often bare below shoots have a diameter of about 5 millimeters. The somewhat woody, twisted twigs spread widely. Their indistinctly stalked, obovate, rounded, densely hairy, non-sticky, often purple-tinged leaves are 12 to 18 millimeters long, 6 to 10 millimeters wide and 2 to 3 millimeters thick. The leaf blade is widest above the center .
Generative characteristics
The little-flowered inflorescence appears on shoots 5 to 3 centimeters long. The eight to nine-fold flowers are on a stalk up to 5 millimeters long and have a diameter of 10 to 12 millimeters. Their sepals are hairy. The deep yellow, elliptical, pointed petals are 5 to 6 millimeters long. Dorsally there is a short hair on the median nerve.
Systematics and distribution
Aichryson bethencourtianum is common on Fuerteventura .
The first description by Carl August Bolle was published in 1859.
Nomenclatory synonyms are Aeonium bethencourtianum (Bolle) Bolle (1859), Sempervivum bethencourtianum (Bolle) Christ (1888) and Macrobia bethencourtiana (Bolle) G.Kunkel (1977).
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literature
- Reto Nyffeler: Aichryson bethencourtianum . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 22 .
