AEONIUM leucoblepharum A. Rich. [family CRASSULACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
AEONIUM leucoblepharum A. Rich. [family CRASSULACEAE], (1848). Fig. 45 A–C.
Information
Shrub, sprawling or hanging, with ascending branches; stems with prominent leaf-scars. Leaves sessile, obovate to spathulate, (1.5–)2.5–9(–11) x 1.5–2.5(–5) cm, obtuse to shortly acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous or minutely glandular-pubescent, with ciliate-pectinate margin. Inflorescence 8–27 x 8–20 cm, leafy, glabrous to glandular-pubescent; pedicels up to 7 mm long. Flowers 8–10-merous. Calyx-lobes 2–3.5 mm long. Petals lanceolate, 6–9 mm long, acute, yellow. Seeds oblong-clavate, c. 0.8 mm long, striate.
Range
N1–3
Altitude range
900–2100 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin 6211; Bally 10356; Drake-Brockman 541.
Distribution (external)
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Kenya
Uganda
Tanzania
Yemen
Notes
The plants from Tanzania and parts of Kenya and Ethiopia were recently segregated as A. stuessyi Liu (1989), distinguished by its glandular-puberulous leaves. However, also some of the Somali collections have glandular leaves, but I prefer to treat the material in tropical Africa and Arabia as one, fairly variable, species.
AEONIUM leucoblepharum A. Rich. [family CRASSULACEAE]
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