By Urs Eggli
Not just does the current quantity represent the 1st entire synopsis of the big and horticulturally very important relatives Crassulaceae released because the therapy through Berger (1930), however the instruction manual sequence as an entire is a landmark in succulent plant literature. The background of the undertaking that finally ended in the book of the current guide sequence used to be defined within the Preface to the Monocotyledons quantity, released in the summertime of 2001. a quick precis of its heritage will accordingly suffice. Handbooks dedicated to succulent crops (including cacti) have a long-standing culture. First remedies masking the kinfolk Cactaceae have been already released within the nineteenth century, however the first guide facing the so-called "other succulents", authored through Hermann Jacobsen, was once basically released in 1954 - 1955, then known as "Handbuch der sukkulenten Pflanzen". A revised and en larged English variation was once released in 1959 and was once many times reprinted hence.
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Oblonga (Haworth) De Candolle (PSRV 3: 396, 1828). T: [lecto - icono]: K, t. 792. - D: RSA (Northern Cape to Eastern Cape); Bushveld, flowers from winter to spring. =: Cotyledon oblonga Haworth (1812); incl. Cotyledon canaliculata Haworth (1819); incl. Cotyledon coruscans Haworth (1819); incl. Cotyledon undulata Haworth (1819); incl. Cotyledon canalifolia Haworth (1825) (nom. ); incl. Cotyledon viridis Haworth (1827); incl. Cotyledon crassifolia Haworth (1827) (nom. , Art. 1); incl. Cotyledon cuneiformis Haworth (1828); incl.
Suburb. Lond, ill. p. 230. - D: Canary Islands (Gran Canaria); 500 - 1900 m. == Sempervivum simsii Sweet (1818); incl. Sempervivum ciliatum Sims (1818) (nom. , Art. 1); incl. Sempervivum barbatum C. Smith ex Homemann (1819); incl. Sempervivum caespitosum C. Smith ex Otto (1820) (nom. ) == Aeonium caespitosum (C. Smith ex Otto) Webb & Berthelot (1840); incl. Sempervivum ciliare Haworth (1821) (nom. ); incl. Sempervivum ligulare Haworth (1821) (nom. , Art. 1). 8 mm, oblanceolate, acute, yellow; Fil glabrous.
Glandulosum (Aiton) Webb & Berthelot (Phytogr. Canar. 3(2:1): 185, 1840). n. [not located]). - D: N Madeira (Deserta Grande), to 1500 m. Fig. g == Sempervivum glandulosum Aiton (1789); incl. Aeonium meyerheimii Bolle (1859) == Sempervivum meyerheimii (Bolle) Murray (1899); inel. Sempervivum patina Lowe (1864) (nom. , Art. 1). 6 mm); Inf much wider than tall, 8 - 25 x 12 - 40 cm; peduncle 2 - 10 cm, leafy; Ped 3 - 18 mm, glandular-pubescent; FI 8- to 13merous; Sep glandular-pubescent; Pet 7 - 11 x 3 - 4 mm,lanceolate, acute, pale yellow; Fil glabrous.