Aeonium ×velutinum Praeger

Herb; stems short and prostrate, rather thin, rooting freely, hidden at or just below the ground and with lf rosettes at or close to the ground. Rosettes to c. 17 cm diam., flat, often clustered; smaller rosettes around the main or terminal one. Outer rosette lvs to c. 14 × 4 cm, 4–6 mm thick near middle, obovate or spathulate, tapering gradually towards base, green with dark greenish, rather faint dashes on lower surface, puberulent and flat on both surfaces except for slightly rounded keel on lower; margins ciliate, often slightly reddish in upper part, otherwise green; apex mucronulate to mucronate. Flowering shoots arising from below main rosette lvs; axis rather slender and spreading, puberulent, with numerous leaflike bracts decreasing in size towards infl. Infl. a rather small, broad, ovoid-pyramidal panicle, ± rounded at the top, to c. 9 cm long; fls secund along branches. Calyx lobes 2.5–4 mm long, puberulent, triangular-ovate or lanceolate-ovate. Petals 8–9, 5–7.5 × c. 2 mm, elliptic-lanceolate, yellow. Stamens yellow, the inner whorl 5–6 mm long, the outer whorl slightly shorter. Carpels white or very pale green. Scales c. 0.3 mm long, ± broad-obovate, rounded to emarginate. Fr. and seeds not seen.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: Oct.–Dec.