Echeveria atropurpurea
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Echeveria atropurpurea is a species of the genus Echeveria ( Echeveria ) in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Echeveria atropurpurea usually grows unbranched and the shoots reach a length of 15 centimeters or more and a diameter of about 2.5 centimeters. The leaf rosettes are 14 to 20 centimeters in diameter. The oblong, lanceolate or obovate-spatulate and pointed leaves are deeply furrowed and 10 to 12 centimeters long and 3 to 5 centimeters wide. They are reddish brown in color.
The inflorescence consists of panicles and becomes 12 to 15 centimeters long. The flower stalk becomes 9 to 12 millimeters long. The spread sepals are linear-lanceolate in shape and are 4 millimeters long or longer. The clearly 5-edged and red corolla is 12 millimeters long.
Distribution and systematics
Echeveria atropurpurea is believed to be common in the state of Veracruz in Mexico .
It was first described in 1870 by John Gilbert Baker as Cotyledon atropurpurea . In 1874 Charles Jacques Édouard Morren put the species in the genus Echeveria. A synonym of the species is Cotyledon atropurpurea Baker .
Plants that are widespread in culture today are of unknown origin, but correspond to the original description.
proof
literature
- Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 108 .
Individual evidence
- ^ JG Baker: Refugium Botanicum; or, Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens of Little Known of New Plants of Botanical Interest, Volume 3, Plate 198, 1870 London online
- ^ Édouard Morren: La Belgique Horticole. Volume 24, 1874 online
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