Crassulaceae - Genus Aeonium - Aeonium mascaense

Aeonium mascaense Bramwell.

Is an in dispute plant , some would like to classify this plant (Rudolpf Schulz – Aeonium in habitat & cultivation – page 31) as a hybrid between A. haworthii and the A. sedifolium.

You have to observe this plant in nature on the by me 3 known sites in the Teno region to be sure we have here to do with a species. If this should be a hybrid it would be very difficult to find the plant on such a different places.

Indeed the plant resembles a lot to the Gomeran Aeonium decorum but the leave form and thickness' differs a lot.

It is a small, much branched, spreading, glabrous sub shrub. The stems are rough with remarkable leaf-scars and scales prominent. Leaves in small rosettes, smooth and reddish in the dry season, spathulate-claviform with a brown/red mid-stripe, margins scarcely ciliated. Inflorescence glabrous.

This plant is extremely rare and more than in danger . Therefore no exact site will be given.



Barr. de Masca , Barr Seco , Barr Juan Lopez.





 
 
 
 

 

 

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