Aeonium dodrantale is a species of tree houseleek in the family Crassulaceae.

Aeonium dodrantale
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Crassulaceae
Genus: Aeonium
Species:
A. dodrantale
Binomial name
Aeonium dodrantale
(Willd.) T. H. M. Mes
Synonyms
  • Sempervivum gracile (Bolle) Christ
  • Sempervivum dodrantale Willd.
  • Greenovia gracilis Bolle
  • Greenovia dodrantalis (Willd.) Webb & Berth.

Systematics

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Flowers

The first description as Sempervivum dodrantale by Carl Ludwig von Willdenow was published in 1809.[1] Theodorus Hendrikus Maria Mes put the species in 1995 in the genus Aeonium.[2]

A synonym in nomenclature is Greenovia dodrantalis (Willd.) Webb & Berthel. (1841).

Description

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The species grows as a perennial, densely budding rosette plant, the offshoot of 2 to 8 inches long thin, smooth stem forms. The cup-shaped or urn-shaped rosettes reach a diameter of 3 to 6 centimeters and are tightly closed during the dry season. Their leaves are tightly packed during growth. The obovate-spateligen, pale green, bluish breath, initially with very fine mesh, later bare leaves are 2 to 3.5 centimetres long, 1 to 1.5 centimeters wide and 0.1 to 0.2 centimeters thick. Towards the top they are rounded or truncated and are often finished. The base is broadly wedge-shaped or slightly narrowed. The leaf margin is translucent.

The flattened inflorescence has a length of 3 to 6 centimeters and a width of 5 to 10 centimeters. The densely leafed peduncle is 10 to 25 centimeters long. The 18 to 23-fold flowers are on a 2 to 4 millimeters long, glandular-fluffy flower stem. The sepals are glandular-fluffy. The deep yellow, reverse lanceolate petals are 6 to 7 millimeters long and 1 to 1.5 millimeters wide. The stamens are bare.

Distribution

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Aeonium dodrantale is widespread in the east and west of Tenerife at heights of 150 to 1200 meters.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ Enumeratio Plantarum Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis.
  2. ^ In: Henk't Hart, Urs Eggli: Evolution and systematics of the Crassulaceae.