CHR 439701 B – Aeonium arboreum (L.) Webb & Berthel.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 439701 B
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
12 July 2005
Database record updated:
19 July 2005
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Aeonium arboreum × A. undulatum
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
2004-03-11 (Verbatim: 11/3/2004)
Preferred name:
Aeonium arboreum (L.) Webb & Berthel.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Rosales
Family:
Crassulaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Aeonium arboreum x A. undulatum ?
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1987-08-31 (Verbatim: 31-AUG-1987)
Preferred name:
Aeonium arboreum (L.) Webb & Berthel.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Canterbury, Port Hills, Sumner, Scarborough Hill
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.576389 172.773353
Verbatim locality:
Canterbury, Christchurch, Sumner, Scarborough Hill
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 215/87
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
29-AUG-1987
Start date:
1987-08-29
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
West-facing slope on cliff edge. Naturalised.
Notes:
Arborescent shrub with "trunks" to c.80cm high (including sub-inflorescence stem) and c. 2 cm diameter, with lozenge-shaped brown scars. Lvs in terminal rosettes on short lateral branches; main trunk rosette developing as an inflorescence. Leaves on lateral branch rosettes to 8.5x3.5cm, and 3-4 mm thick, obovate-spathulate, green, ± flat above and beneath, regularly ciliolate margins; apex mucronate. Infl. to 20 × 17 cm, broadly ovoid-pyramidal with a ± obtuse apex, glabrous. Bracts dehiscent below infl. by maximum flowering but ± green amongst infl. branches.Sepals c. 3 mm long, triangular, acute. Petals 9-10, 9-9.5 × 2.3 - 2.5 mm, ± linear-lanceolate, pale greenish-yellow, apex subacute. Stamens of 2 lengths, but all with abortive anthers and no pollen; outer stamens 7-8 mm long, inner ones often 5-6 mm; all pale greenish-yellow, usually with upper part of the filament very constricted; length and constrictions showing degeneration. Carpels 7-8 mm long, greenish-white; styles c. 3mm long. Scales c. 1.5 mm long, whitish, ± rectangular and apex erose-truncate.A small population mixed with A. arboreum Sykes 214/87, and apparently spreading a little down the slope. A. undulatum and A. haworthii in the area.
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to D
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