Aeonium urbicum

Aeonium urbicum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Crassulaceae
Genus: Aeonium
Species:
A. urbicum
Binomial name
Aeonium urbicum
Synonyms[1]
  • Aeonium pseudourbicum Bañares
  • Sempervivum urbicum C.Sm. ex Hornem.

Aeonium urbicum is a succulent species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae. It is endemic to Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, where it grows on the north of the island from Teno point to the Anaga peninsula.[2]: 174  Until 1999, it was also considered a resident of La Gomera, another Canary Island, but that year the populations on that island were considered a new species and named Aeonium appendiculatum.[3]

Aeonium urbicum was also divided into varieties, var. urbicum and var. meridionale.[3]

  1. ^ The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species, retrieved 30 July 2016
  2. ^ Bramwell, D.; Bramwell, Z. (2001). Wild flowers of the Canary Islands. Madrid, Spain: Editorial Rueda. ISBN 84-7207-129-4.
  3. ^ a b Bañares Baudet, Á. (1999), "Notes on the taxonomy of Aeonium urbicum and A. appendiculatum sp. nova (Crassulaceae)", Willdenowia, 29: 95–103, doi:10.3372/wi.29.2908