Echeveria australis
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Echeveria australis - Illustration from Addisonia, Volume 1, Plate 40, 1916 |
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Echeveria australis is a species of the genus Echeveria ( Echeveria ) in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Echeveria australis forms hairless subshrubs with a height of up to 30 centimeters. The somewhat rosette, narrow obovate-wedge-shaped, blunt and pointed to pointed leaves are 7 centimeters long and over 2 centimeters wide. They are light green and often tinted purple and colored glauc .
The inflorescence consists of dense racemes or the lower branches are two-flowered and are up to 25 centimeters long. The ascending or spreading sepals are 8 to 12 millimeters long. The clearly 5-edged and red corolla is 11 to 14 millimeters long.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 56.
Distribution and systematics
Echeveria australis is widespread in Costa Rica , Panama and Honduras and usually grows epiphytically .
The first description was in 1903 by Joseph Nelson Rose .
proof
literature
- Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 108-109 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Echeveria australis at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ^ Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden. Volume 3, page 6, 1903 online
Web links
- Photo of a flowering plant