By Urs Eggli
ISBN-10: 3642558747
ISBN-13: 9783642558740
Not just does the current quantity represent the 1st entire synopsis of the big and horticulturally vital relations Crassulaceae released because the remedy by way of Berger (1930), however the instruction manual sequence as an entire is a landmark in succulent plant literature. The heritage of the venture that at last ended in the ebook of the current instruction manual sequence was once defined within the Preface to the Monocotyledons quantity, released in the summertime of 2001. a quick precis of its historical past will consequently suffice. Handbooks dedicated to succulent crops (including cacti) have a long-standing culture. First remedies masking the family members Cactaceae have been already released within the nineteenth century, however the first instruction manual facing the so-called "other succulents", authored by way of Hermann Jacobsen, was once simply released in 1954 - 1955, then referred to as "Handbuch der sukkulenten Pflanzen". A revised and en larged English variation was once released in 1959 and used to be many times reprinted as a consequence.
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Cotyledon Canar. 1: 181, 1840). n. [BM]). - D: Azores (Santa Maria), Madeira, Desertas, Porto Santo; to 1300 m. == Sempervivum villosum Aiton (1789) == Sempervivum divaricatum var. villosum (Aiton) Kuntze (1891); incl. Sempervivum stellatum J. E. Smith (1791); incl. Sempervivum barretii C. A. Menezes (1922). 1a] Annual simple or sparsely branched densely hairy herbs 8 - 18 cm tall; stems to 4 mm 0, densely hairy, occasionally glabrous below, lower Br divaricate, spreading; L 12 - 24 x 8 - 18 mm, blade broadest near the base, widely obtrullate, blunt or rounded, rather abruptly attenuate into a distinct petiole (± as long as the blade), densely hairy (Ra to 2 mm), often tinged purplish-red; Inf lax, few-flowered; Ped 5 - 15 mrn; Fl 7- to 8merous, 12 - 15 mm 0; Sep densely hairy; Pet 5 - 7 mm,lanceolate, acute, deep yellow.
1840). T: BM. D: Canary Islands (Lanzarote, Fuerteventura); to 700m. == Sempervivum tortuosum Aiton (1789) == Aeonium tortuosum (Aiton) A. Berger (1930) == Macrobia tortuosa (Aiton) G. Kunkel (1977); incl. Sempervivum villosum Haworth (1812) (nom. , Art. 1); incl. Sempervivum pygmaeum C. Smith ex Link (1828) == Aichryson pygmaeum (c. Smith ex Link) Webb & Berthelot (1840); incl. Aichryson radicescens Webb & Berthelot (1840) == Sempervivum radicescens (Webb & Berthelot) Christ (1888); incl. Aichryson pulvinatum Burchard (1913) == Sempervivum pulvinatum (Burchard) Praeger (1925).
Ohba (1978); incl. Sempervivum simense Hochstetter ex A. Richard (1847) (nom. , Art. 1c); incl. Cotyledon simensis Britten (1871). Description as for the genus. The species does not appear to be in cultivation. AICHRYSON R. Nyffeler Aichryson Webb & Berthelot (Phytogr. Canar. 1: 180, 1840). T: Sempervivum dichotomum De Candolle [Typification according to D. Bramwell, Bol. Inst. Nac. Invest. Agron. 28: 204, 1968 (= Aichryson dichotomum, treated as synonym of A. ]. - Lit: Praeger (1932); Bramwell (1968); Bramwell (1977); Bramwell & Bramwell (1990); Press & Short (1994); Bafiares Baudet (1997).
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