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Sempervivum chrysanthum

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Identification
Sempervivum chrysanthum Hochst. ex Britten [family CRASSULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Schimper G. H. W., 1840 Aeonium leucoblepharum Webb ex Richard [family CRASSULACEAE ] Verified by Ho-Yih L., 1985
Related name
  • Aeonium leucoblepharum
  • Sempervivum chrysanthum

Flora

Entry for SEMPERVIVUM chrysanthum Hochst. [family CRASSULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 2, page 385, (1871) Author: (By Mr. J. G. Baker.)
Names
SEMPERVIVUM chrysanthum Hochst. [family CRASSULACEAE]
Æonium leucoblepharum Webb [family ], in A. Rich. Fl. Abyss. i. 314.
SEMPERVIVUM arboreum L. [family CRASSULACEAE], (name only) is mentioned in Ferret and Galinier's Voyage en Abyssinie, p. 134.
Information
Stem thick, suffruticose, 1–2 ft. high; leaves pectinate-ciliate, on barren shoots rosulate, roundish-ovate; stem-leaves obovate-oblong, rounded above, apiculate. Inflorescence a thyrsoid corymb, peduncles long, glabrous, ascending. Flowers sub-8-merous. Calyx hypocrateriform, with short triangular teeth. Petals yellow, linear-lanceolate. Filaments dilated at the base, united above in a tube with the petals; anthers roundish-ovate. Squamulæ square, with two teeth. Carpels glabrous, erect, immersed at the base in the calyx-tube.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper! Petit.
Notes
I do not see how this differs specifically from S. arboreum, L.; but having only dried specimens, do not like to unite them.

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