Monanthes lowei

Monanthes lowei
Systematics
Order :	Saxifragales (Saxifragales)
Family :	Thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae)
Subfamily :	Sempervivoideae
Tribe :	Aeonieae
Genre :	Monanthes
Type :	Monanthes lowei
Scientific name
	Monanthes lowei
	( Paiva ) P. Perez & Acebes

Monanthes lowei is a species of plant from the genus Monanthes in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae). The specific epithet lowei honors the British clergyman and botanist Richard Thomas Lowe .

description

Vegetative characteristics

Monanthes lowei is a perennial and regularly sprouting rosette plant . Their shoots are short, strong and more or less caudiciform . They have a diameter of 4 to 7 millimeters. The loose or rather compact, flat rosettes reach a diameter of 10 to 25 millimeters and consist of 15 to 45 leaves. The obovate leaves are rounded and conspicuously narrow into a long stem-like base. Younger leaves are somewhat rhombic. Their leaf blades are 7 to 15 millimeters long, 2 to 4 millimeters wide and about 1 to 2 millimeters thick. Its bare surface is slightly papillary .

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence consists of simple or rarely branched flower stems that appear to the side and is regularly branched. The mostly six-fold flowers are on sparse glandular-hairy pedicels 3 to 8 millimeters long and reach a diameter of 3 to 4 millimeters. Their elongated and occasionally slightly broadened, pointed petals are 2.4 to 3.6 millimeters long and 1.1 to 1.5 millimeters wide. The nectar flakes are 1 to 1.5 millimeters long and 1.5 to 2 millimeters wide. Your blade is two-lobed, inverted heart-shaped, tiny notched and clearly nailed.

Distribution and systematics

Monanthes lowei is common on the Selvagens Islands .

The first description as Sempervivum lowei by Jorge Américo Rodrigues Paiva was published in 1867. Pedro Luis Pérez de Paz and Juan Ramón Acebes put the species in 1985 in the genus Monanthes .

proof

literature

Reto Nyffeler: Monanthes lowei . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 192 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 141.
^ Baron do Castelle de Paiva: Description of a new Sempervivum, from the Salvage Islands . In: Journal of Botany, British and Foreign . Volume 5, London 1867, pp. 21-22 ( online ).
↑ Juan Ramón Acebes Ginovés, Pedro Luis Pérez de Paz: Contribución al estudio de la flora y vegetación de las Islas Salvajes: validaciones . In: Vieraea: Folia scientarum biologicarum canariensium . Volume 14, Numbers 1-2, 1984 pp 153-156.

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 141.

[2] Baron do Castelle de Paiva: Description of a new Sempervivum, from the Salvage Islands . In: Journal of Botany, British and Foreign . Volume 5, London 1867, pp. 21-22 ( online ).

[3] Juan Ramón Acebes Ginovés, Pedro Luis Pérez de Paz: Contribución al estudio de la flora y vegetación de las Islas Salvajes: validaciones . In: Vieraea: Folia scientarum biologicarum canariensium . Volume 14, Numbers 1-2, 1984 pp 153-156.