Aeonium ciliatum
Aeonium ciliatum
Aeonium ciliatum is a species of the genus Aeonium in the family Crassulaceae ( Crassulaceae ). The specific epithet ciliatum comes from the Latin, means eyelash " and refers to the eyelashes along the leaf margins.
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Description
Vegetative characteristics
Aeonium ciliatum forms perennial and little branched subshrubs, reach stature heights of up to 1 meter. The ascending impulses reach diameter of 5 to 20 mm. You are bald and reticulate. The rather flattened rosettes have a diameter of 8 to 20 centimeters. The dark green to yellowish green, bluish tinged, obovate - spateligen leaves are pointed to their head back and narrowed at the base or wedge-shaped. Your leaf blade is 4-12 inches long, 2-5 inches wide and 4-8 mm thick. You verkahlt and is sometimes near the tip slightly longitudinally folded. The leaf margin is covered with straight or slightly curved eyelashes from 0.4 to 0.8 millimeters in length.
Inflorescences and flowers
The dome-shaped inflorescence is 15 to 40 inches high and 10 to 35 inches wide. The peduncle is 5-20 inches long. The seven-to neunzähligen flowers are weakly fluff hairy pedicels 2-4 millimeters in length. Their sepals are slightly pubescent. The whitish on the underside often variegaten greenish, lanceolate, pointed petals are 7-10 mm long and 1.2 to 2 millimeters wide. The stamens are sparse weakly pubescent.
Systematics and distribution
Aeonium ciliatum is common in the northern part of the Canary island of Tenerife at an altitude of 200 to 1000 meters.
The first description by Philip Barker Webb and Sabin Berthelot was published in 1841. A synonym is Aeonium ciliatum Willd. (1809, nom. Illeg. ICBN article 53.1 ).
Aeonium ciliatum can easily be confused with Aeonium davidbramwellii.