Echeveria agavoides
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Echeveria agavoides is a species of the genus Echeveria ( Echeveria ) in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae). The specific epithet agavoides is derived from the Greek suffix -oides for 'to resemble' and from the genus Agave and refers to the appearance of the species.
description
Echeveria agavoides usually reaches heights of 5 to 10 centimeters. The normally unbranched shoot is 2.5 to 3 centimeters in diameter. The leaf rosettes are 7 to 15, sometimes up to 35 centimeters in diameter. About 20 sheets are formed. These are oval-triangular, pointed 4 to 7 centimeters long, at the base about 3 centimeters wide and about 5 millimeters thick. They are green, rounded and translucent at the edges, and sometimes reddish in color along the edges or at the tip.
The inflorescence usually consists of two coils , the branches of which are one-sided and paniculate. The slender flower stalk becomes 8 to 20, sometimes up to 30 millimeters long. The little spread sepals are less than 5 millimeters long. The conical-urn-shaped, rose-reddish to orange-red corolla is 10 to 14 millimeters long and has a diameter of 5 to 8 millimeters at the base and 5 to 10 millimeters at the throat.
The number of chromosomes is 58 or 64.
Distribution and systematics
Echeveria agavoides is common in the Mexican states of San Luis Potosí , Hidalgo , Guanajuato, and Durango .
It was first described in 1863 by Charles Lemaire . Synonyms are Cotyledon agavoides (Lem.) Baker , Urbinia agavoides (Lem.) Rose , Echeveria yuccoides Morren , Urbinia obscura Rose and Echeveria obscura (Rose) A. Berger .
The species was often used for hybrid breeding in the 1960s and is also very variable in location. The following cultivars are distinguished:
- Echeveria agavoides 'Corderoyi' (Morren) Kimnach
- Echeveria agavoides 'Ebony' Kimnach & Trager
- Echeveria agavoides 'Multifida' (E. Walther) Kimnach
- Echeveria agavoides 'Prolifera' (E. Walther) Kimnach
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literature
- Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 107-108 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 4.
- ↑ Echeveria agavoides at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ In: L'Illustration Horticole . Volume 10, Gent / Brussels 1863 ( online ).
