모난테스 폴리필라-monanthes polyphylla

과명	Crassulaceae (돌나물과)	속명	Monanthes (모난테스속)
전체학명	[정명] Monanthes polyphylla (Aiton) Haw.	추천명	모난테스 폴리필라
이명		외국명

학명변경: 명명자 변경 Haw. -> (Aiton) Haw. 추천명변경: 폴리필라모난테스 -> 모난테스 폴리필라

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Origin and Habitat: Monanthes polyphylla (subsp. polyphylla) is native of the Canary Islands, and grows on the islands of Gran Canaria, Tenerife and possibly La Palma. The subsp. amydros is endemic of the island of Gomera and possibly of La Palma.
Altitude range 100-1500 metres above sea level, but usually found at relatively high altitudes.
Habitat: In nature it grows very localized in crevices on shaded earthy cliffs and damp rocks.

Synonyms:

• Monanthes polyphylla Haw.

Common Names include:
ENGLISH: One Flowered House Leek, Dwarf Crassula
JAPANESE (日本語): モナンテス・ポリフィラ -, モナンテス・アミドロス, モナンテス・ポリフィラ・アミドロス

Description: Monanthes polyphylla (so named by Mr Haworth because it present but one flower at a time) is a charming tufted succulent, up to 12 cm tall, with tiny many-leaved rosettes, forming soft, shiny, dense clumps which in June bear numerous small purplish flowers like parasols. It was the first known of the genus Monanthes, and is still the most attractive in this genus.
Similar species: Resemblances with the Monanthes subcrassicaulis and the Monanthes pallens var. silensis are remarkable.
Habit: It is a richly branched perennial succulent plant characterized by its distinctly creeping habit that forms dense cushions of many almost equally large rosettes, on slender creeping stems.
Stems: Procumbent, wiry, 1 to 2 mm in diameter.
Rosettes: Minuscule, very dense, hemispherical to shortly cylindrical in side view 6-14(-20) in diameter, mostly pinkish-grey. In cultivation Monanthes polyphylla often loses this characteristic tinge, and remains green or purplish.
Leaves: Tiny, soft and succulent, narrow obovate, cylindrical or club-shaped, rounded or truncated and crowded in a rosulate manner with entire margins and light green in colour. Lamina 3-6 mm long, 1-2 mm wide and about 1 mm thick. Lower surface often with few short glandular hairs. Tip densely papillose.
Inflorescences (racemes): Terminal, unbranched or branched from its base. Pedicels densely glandular-hairy 10 to 20 mm long generally 1 flowered.
Flowers: Small, stellate, purplish, 4 to 9 mm in diameter. Calyx densely hairy. Petals 6 to 9, narrow elongated, pointed or tapered 3.1-4.2 mm long and 0.4-0.6 mm wide hardly longer than the calyx scales of flower. Petals margins with glandular hairs.
Blooming season: From end of May until end of June.

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