Echeveria acutifolia

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Echeveria acutifolia
Echeveria acutifolia - Illustration from the first description from 1842

Echeveria acutifolia - Illustration from the first description from 1842

Systematics
Order : Saxifragales (Saxifragales)
Family : Thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae)
Subfamily : Sempervivoideae
Tribe : Sedeae
Genre : Echeveria ( Echeveria )
Type : Echeveria acutifolia
Scientific name
Echeveria acutifolia
Lindl.

Echeveria acutifolia is a species of the genus Echeveria ( Echeveria ) in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae). The specific epithet acutifolia is derived from the Latin words acutus for 'pointed' and folius for 'leafy'.

description

Echeveria acutifolia grows singly and rarely branches. The shoots reach a length of 10 centimeters or more. The almost rhombic and very pointed leaves are concave on the upper side, have an attached tip and are colored green with a purple or red tint.

The narrow cymös -rispige inflorescence is short and stiff branches from 3 to 4, individual flowers. The ascending sepals are linear and half as long as the corolla. The urn-shaped corolla is 5-edged and colored scarlet with a yellow tint.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 54 or 56.

Distribution and systematics

Echeveria acutifolia is common in Mexico in the state of Oaxaca . T. MacDougall found a variant with glossy red leaves on Cerro Guiengola. Abisaí García in Nizanda picked up a shape with mostly green leaves.

The first description was in 1842 by John Lindley . Synonyms for the species are Cotyledon acutifolia (Lindl.) Baker , Cotyledon devensis N.E.Br. , Echeveria devensis (NEBr.) MLGreen and Echeveria holwayi Rose .

proof

literature

  • Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 107 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 2.
  2. ↑ Echeveria acutifolia at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
  3. ^ Edwards's Botanical Register , Volume 5, 1842, Plate 29 ( online ).

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