CHR 437319 B – Aeonium urbicum (C.A.Sm.) Webb & Berthel.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 437319 B
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
09 June 2015
Database record updated:
18 June 2022
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Aeonium urbicum
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1987-03-12 (Verbatim: 12-MAR-1987)
Preferred name:
Aeonium urbicum (C.A.Sm.) Webb & Berthel.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Rosales
Family:
Crassulaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Wellington, Halswell Point
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-41.286 174.825
Verbatim locality:
Wellington, Halswell Point
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 49/87
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
24-FEB-1987
Start date:
1987-02-24
Country:
New Zealand
Land District:
Wellington Land District
Native lands:
Ngāti Toa Rangatira
Taranaki Whānui ki te Upoko o te Ika
Te Atiawa (Wellington)
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-41.286 174.825
Habitat:
Steep east-facing slope, dominated by broom, ± open pockets.
Notes:
Arborescent plant with stems to 80 cm. tall and 3 cm. diam. Leaf scars +/- rhomboid, lateral branches only near stem bases and much thinner and smaller. Leaves in terminal, rather flat rosettes to 20cm diam., to 13 × 4.3 cm., 4 × 5 mm thick in middle, obovate-spathulate, with lower leaves almost petiolate, glaucous, flat on both surfaces apart from slight rounded keel on each side, purple-margined, slightly apiculate. Old infl. large and probably c. 30cm high.Well established with a number of patches near Massey Memorial on Halswell Point. Could well be A. urbicum × A. haworthii see Praeger... Sempervivum Group R.H.S. 193 (p. 176 in Cramer 1967 reprint). Could be hybrid.
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to C
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