x proliferum   Bañares, 2007

Par: Aeonium davidbramwellii  H.-Y.Liu × Aeonium hierrense  (R.P.Murray) Pit. & Proust

[Or Aeonium ciliatum  Webb & Berthel. × Aeonium hierrense  (R.P.Murray) Pit. & Proust if davidbramwellii is not considered to be distinct from ciliatum]

Aeonium ×proliferum Bañares, Híbridos de la familia Crassulaceae en las islas Canarias. Novedades y datos corológicos IV, Vieraea 35: 15, 24, t.4. (Oct) 2007.

Etym: A Latin adjective, prolifer, offsetting.

T: Islas Canarias, La Palma, Los Llanos District, Jedey, 4km S of Las Manchas; May 1997, Ángel Bañares.

HT: TFC 43.439.

Description :

Monocarpic plant with the habit of A. hierrense, 60 cm tall when in flower.

Stem thick, to 3 cm in diameter, leaf scars narrowly elipsoid, 7 - 10 x 1 - 2.5 mm.

Rosettes up to 20 cm in diameter.

Leaves  7 - 9 x 3 - 4 cm, 3 - 4 mm thick in the middle, obovate, apiculate, glaucous and often reddish tinged, puberulent (similar to A. davidbramwellii but hairs less abundant and shorter), margins with thick erect cilia mixed with pubescence.

Inflorescence 25 - 35 cm long and broad, pubescent, peduncle 4 - 17 cm long, pedicels pubescent, 1.5 - 4 cm long.

Flowers ca. 1.7 cm in diameter, 7-8-merous, calyx pubescent, sepals 2.3 - 3.2 x 1.5 - 2 mm, petals 8 - 10 x 2.2 - 2.5 mm, white, tinged reddish in the centre, puberulent outside.

Aeonium ×proliferum var. glabrifolium Bañares, 2007