x lemsii Kunkel, 1972
Par: Aeonium percarneum (R.P.Murray) Pit. & Proust × Aeonium virgineum Webb ex H.Christ
[or Aeonium canariense (L.) Webb & Berthel. × Aeonium percarneum (R.P.Murray) Pit. & Proust when A. virgineum is considered to be a variety of A. canariense]
Aeonium percarneum (R.P.Murray) Pit. & Proust × Aeonium virgineum H.Christ, Praeger, Semperviva of the Canary Islands area, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 38 Sect.B (1): 479-480, t.12, fig. 19. (24 Sep) 1929.
Aeonium ×lemsii G.Kunkel, Enumeración de las plantas vasculares de Gran Canaria, Monographiae Biologicae Canariensis 3(1): 40, 41. 1972.
Etym: Named for Kornelius Lems (1931-1968).
T: Islas Canarias, Gran Canaria, Cuesta de Silva, frequent in a valley on the E side of the road; also in the barranco E of Cuesta de Silva, near the road bridge; 1924, R. Lloyd Praeger.
HT: Citation of two original included elements, the author's specimen and Praeger's illustration, necessitated lectotypification.
LT: Sketch of a leaf in Praeger, Semperviva of the Canary Islands area, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 38 Sect.B (1): t.12, fig.19. 1929. Designated by Bañares, Vieraea 35: 14. (Oct) 2007.
Obs: On p.41 of the protologue Kunkel stated that material was preserved in his own private herbarium, Herbarium kunkelianum, but this has not been traced.
Shrubby.
Stem short, erect, branched.
Branches patent, short, clothed below with withered leaves.
Leaves of the pale green of virgineum, sparcely and minutely pubescent, red-margined and streaked purple on back (as in percarneum), margin with short blunt cilia like those of percarneum mixed with pubescence as in virgineum.
Flowering time : March - April
Quite intermediate in stem and leaf characters.