x anagense   Bramwell & Rowley ex Heath, 1992

Par. Aeonium lindleyi  Webb & Berthel. × Aeonium tabuliforme  (Haw.) Webb & Berthel.

Aeonium lindleyi  Webb & Berthel. × Aeonium tabuliforme ( Haw.) Webb & Berthel., Praeger, Semperviva of the Canary Islands area, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 38 Sect.B (1): 476-477, t.11, fig. 14. (24 Sep) 1929.

Aeonium x anagense  Bramwell & G.D.Rowley, in Jacobsen & Rowley, Some name changes in succulent plants, Part V, National Cactus and Succulent Journal 28(1): 5. (Mar) 1973. ("anagensis") nom. inval. [protologue includes two illustrations without designation of the type]

Aeonium x anagense  Bramwell & G.D.Rowley ex Heath, The type of Aeonium Webb & Berthelot, Calyx 2(2): 57-58. (Oct) 1992.

Etym: Named for Macizo de Anaga, a mountain range of eastern Tenerife. From Naga, or Ahanaga, the name of the region in the extinct Guanche language of the aboriginal Berber inhabitants of the Canary Islands, spoken until the 17C.

T: Islas Canarias, Tenerife; Oscar Burchard.

HT: Cluster from Burchard, Beiträge zur Ökologie und Biologie der Kanarenpflanzen, Bibliotheca Botanica 98: t.43. 1929.

Description (according to Praeger, An Account of the Sempervivum Group, 1932) :

Subshrubby, velvety.

Stem slender, 4 mm thick, 15 - 20 cm high.

Branches few, slender, patent, bare, with dense flat terminal leaf-rosettes.

Leaves imbricate, 4 - 5 cm long, 2.5 cm broad, rhomboidal-spathulate, pubescent, very broadly cuneate at apex, long-stalked, margin with long cilia and short glandular cilia intermixed.

Inflorescence lax, intermediate, as are the pale yellow flowers.

Distribution : Tenerife, on rocks by coast below Taganana, 450 m.

Resembles a subshrubby A. tabuliforme with less dense much smaller rosettes. The compound ciliation of the leaves strikingly recalls both parents.