Aeonium aureum

Aeonium aureum
In habitat, Pico Birigoyo, La Palma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Crassulaceae
Genus: Aeonium
Species:
A. aureum
Binomial name
Aeonium aureum
(C.Sm. ex Hornem.) T.H.M.Mes[1]
Synonyms[1]
  • Greenovia aurea (C.Sm. ex Hornem.) Webb & Berthel.
  • Sempervivum aureum C.Sm. ex Hornem.

Aeonium aureum is a species of flowering plant in the Stonecrop Family Crassulaceae, native to the Canary Islands (Tenerife, Gran Canaria, El Hierro, La Gomera and La Palma).[1][2] It has very short stems, usually with several leaf rosettes. The grey-green leaves are tightly packed and fleshy. The bright yellow flowers are produced on leafy stems, and are up to 25 mm (1 in) across.[2] These flowers are extraordinary in being 32-merous (trigintoduomerous) i.e. having usually 32 sepals, 32 petals, 32 stamens and an ovary of 32 carpels each organ class in single concentric whorls.[3] It can have as few as 28 in a whorl to as many as 35, with 32 being the most common.[4]

  • Leaf rosettes
    Leaf rosettes

References

  1. ^ a b c "Aeonium aureum (C.Sm. ex Hornem.) T.H.M.Mes", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2018-01-30
  2. ^ a b Bramwell, David & Bramwell, Zoë (2001), Wild Flowers of the Canary Islands (2nd ed.), Madrid: Editorial Rueda, p. 175, ISBN 84-7207-129-4 (as Greenovia aurea)
  3. ^ Berger, A. Crassulaceae NATURLICHEN PFLANZENFAMILIEN Band 18a page 379
  4. ^ Bramwell, David and Zoe (1974). Wildflowers of the Canary Islands. London: Stanley Thorns (pubs). p. 145.


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