Monanthes icterica

Monanthes icterica
Systematics
Order :	Saxifragales (Saxifragales)
Family :	Thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae)
Subfamily :	Sempervivoideae
Tribe :	Aeonieae
Genre :	Monanthes
Type :	Monanthes icterica
Scientific name
	Monanthes icterica
	( Webb ex Bolle ) Christ

Monanthes icterica is a species of plant from the genus Monanthes in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae). The specific epithet icterica comes from Latin , means 'yellowish as ifsuffering from jaundice ' and refers to the yellowish green color of the plant.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Monanthes icterica is a dwarf, bare, simple or more or less horizontally branched annual , herbaceous plant that reaches heights of 2 to 6 centimeters. The alternately arranged, elliptical or obovate leaves are more or less clustered near the shoot tips . Your leaf blade is 5 to 9 millimeters long and 2 to 4 millimeters wide. The tip of the blade is rounded. Their surface is bare or slightly papillary .

Inflorescences and flowers

The terminal inflorescence is regularly branched. The six to seven-fold flowers are on the glandular-hairy pedicels 2 to 5 millimeters long and reach a diameter of 3 to 4 millimeters. Their narrow, elongated petals , occasionally widening towards the tip, are 1.9 to 2.6 millimeters long and 0.6 to 0.9 millimeters wide. They are pointed or spiky. The nectar flakes are 0.9 to 1.4 millimeters long and 1.1 to 1.6 millimeters wide. Your blade is bilobed, trimmed, frayed and clearly nailed.

Distribution and systematics

Monanthes icterica is distributed in the west of Tenerife and in the east of La Gomera at altitudes of 100 to 900 meters.

The first description as Petrophyes icterica by Carl August Bolle was published in 1859. Konrad Hermann Heinrich Christ placed the species in the genus Monanthes in 1888 . Aichryson mollii Pit is a synonym . (1909).

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literature

Reto Nyffeler: Monanthes icterica . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 191 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 115.
^ Bonplandia. Journal for the whole botany . Volume 7, 1859, p. 244 ( online ).
^ H. Christ: Spicilegium Canariense (conclusion) . In: Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and plant geography . Volume 9, number 2, Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1888, p. 162 ( online ).

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Herbarium specimens from Monanthes ictericas

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 115.

[2] Bonplandia. Journal for the whole botany . Volume 7, 1859, p. 244 ( online ).

[3] H. Christ: Spicilegium Canariense (conclusion) . In: Botanical yearbooks for systematics, plant history and plant geography . Volume 9, number 2, Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1888, p. 162 ( online ).