x laxiflorum  (Macarrón & Bañares) Bañares, 2007

Par: Aeonium decorum  Bolle × Aeonium diplocycla  (Bolle) Mes

×Greenonium laxiflorum  Macarrón & Bañares, Híbridos de la familia Crassulaceae en las islas Canarias. Novedades y datos corológicos. II, Vieraea 18: 68, 84, t.21. 1990.

Aeonium ×laxiflorum  (Macarrón & Bañares) Tavorm. & S.Tavorm., Aeonium sezione Greenovia, Piante Grasse 26(2): 49. (Apr) 2006 nom. inval. (Art. 41.5) [Lacking complete basionym reference].

Aeonium ×laxiflorum (Macarrón & Bañares) Bañares, Híbridos de la familia Crassulaceae en las islas Canarias. Novedades y datos corológicos. IV, Vieraea 35: 14. (Oct) 2007.

Etym: A compound adjective meaning loose-flowered, from the Latin laxus, loose, and flos, flower.

T: Islas Canarias, La Gomera, Barranco de la Laja, 550m; Mar 1987, Jose Manuel Macarrón.

HT: TFC 25.003.

Description :

Small plant, intermediate between the parents, branched.

Stem sturdy, 10 - 13 mm thick, rugose.

Rosettes 5 - 8 cm in diameter.

Leaves 3.5 - 6 x 2 - 3 cm, spatulate, acuminate, glabrous, small rosettes occasionally puberulous, green sometimes reddish especially at margins; margins sinuous, hyaline and pubescent as in G. diplocycla as well as with the characteristic cilia of A. decorum.

Inflorescence 13 - 15 cm high, resembling Greenovia but longer and more lax, pubescent, 12 - 14 flowering branches as in G. diplocycla but larger (9 - 13 cm), pendulous, with 18 - 20 flowers with short pedicels as in A. decorum.

Flowers 11-13-merous, 1.2 - 1.5 cm in diameter, calyx green, glandular-pubescent, sepals 1.3 - 1.6 mm, petals 7 - 8 x 2 mm, pubescent, whitish cream with a yellowish-green tint.

Distribution : Canary Islands : La Gomera.