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Internal ID UUID64400791ed6e4041429338
Scientific name Aeonium balsamiferum
Authority Webb & Berthel.
First published in Hist. Nat. Iles Canaries 3(2; 1): 192 (1840)

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Aeonium balsamiferum, also known as bejeque farrobo in Spanish, is a tropical flowering plant belonging to the family Crassulaceae. It is found exclusively in the Canary Islands, where it was first described by Philip Barker Webb and Sabin Berthelot in 1840. This shrub has sticky leaves and can grow up to 20 cm in diameter. It produces light yellow flowers and is commonly found in shrublands and rocky areas in the eastern Canary Islands of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura.

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Sempervivum balsamiferum Webb & Berthel. Hist. Nat. Iles Canaries 3(2; 1): 192 (1840)

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Spanish potera
Spanish alfarroba
Spanish bejeque amarillo
Spanish bejeque farrobo
German balsam-aeonie
German balsam-aeonium

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World Flora Online wfo-0000521612
Tropicos 100284050
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:272195-1
The Plant List kew-2623543
Open Tree Of Life 492395
Observations.org 113984
NCBI Taxonomy 111144
NBN Atlas NBNSYS0000163516
IUCN Red List 165110
IPNI 272195-1
iNaturalist 188978
GBIF 4198600
EOL 5549972
Elurikkus 487564
USDA GRIN 1570
Wikipedia Aeonium_balsamiferum

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Inter- and intra-island speciation and their morphological and ecological correlates in Aeonium (Crassulaceae), a species-rich Macaronesian radiation Messerschmid TF, Abrahamczyk S, Bañares-Baudet Á, Brilhante MA, Eggli U, Hühn P, Kadereit JW, dos Santos P, de Vos JM, Kadereit G Ann Bot 23-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC10147336
doi:10.1093/aob/mcad033
PMID:36821492

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