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Aeonium aureum

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Species of succulent

Aeonium aureum
In habitat, Pico Birigoyo, La Palma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Crassulaceae
Genus: Aeonium
Species: A. aureum
Binomial name
Aeonium aureum
(C.Sm. ex Hornem.) T.H.M.Mes
Synonyms
  • Greenovia aurea (C.Sm. ex Hornem.) Webb & Berthel.
  • Sempervivum aureum C.Sm. ex Hornem.

Aeonium aureum is a species of flowering plant in the Stonecrop Family Crassulaceae, native to the Canary Islands (Tenerife, Gran Canaria, El Hierro, La Gomera and La Palma). It has very short stems, usually with several leaf rosettes. The grey-green leaves are tightly packed and fleshy. The bright yellow flowers are produced on leafy stems, and are up to 25 mm (1 in) across. These flowers are extraordinary in being 32-merous (trigintoduomerous) i.e. having usually 32 sepals, 32 petals, 32 stamens and an ovary of 32 carpels each organ class in single concentric whorls. It can have as few as 28 in a whorl to as many as 35, with 32 being the most common.

  • Leaf rosettes Leaf rosettes

References

  1. ^ "Aeonium aureum (C.Sm. ex Hornem.) T.H.M.Mes", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2018-01-30
  2. ^ Bramwell, David & Bramwell, Zoë (2001), Wild Flowers of the Canary Islands (2nd ed.), Madrid: Editorial Rueda, p. 175, ISBN 84-7207-129-4 (as Greenovia aurea)
  3. Berger, A. Crassulaceae NATURLICHEN PFLANZENFAMILIEN Band 18a page 379
  4. Bramwell, David and Zoe (1974). Wildflowers of the Canary Islands. London: Stanley Thorns (pubs). p. 145.
Taxon identifiers
Aeonium aureum
Greenovia aurea
Sempervivum aureum


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