Echeveria bakeri
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Echeveria bakeri is a species of the genus Echeveria ( Echeveria ) in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae). The specific epithet bakeri honors the Californian gardener William Baker.
description
Echeveria bakeri reaches heights of growth of up to 10 centimeters. The shoot has a diameter of 7 to 12 millimeters. The leaf rosettes are usually single. The rosette leaves are lanceolate and slightly pointed. They are 8 to 11 inches long, 2.5 to 3 inches wide and colored glaucous- white or reddish.
The inflorescence forms up to 50, sometimes up to 90 centimeters long grapes. The bracts are strikingly colored glaucoma. The flower stalk is 9 to 22 millimeters long and is rising at the base and bent back towards the tip. The adjoining sepals are 4 to 8 millimeters long. The egg-shaped and pinkish to orange corolla is 5-sided and 12 to 20 millimeters long. The number of chromosomes is around 164.
Distribution and systematics
Echeveria bakeri is widespread in Bolivia in the department of Cochabamba between Aiquile and Mizque .
The first description was in 1991 by Myron William 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. 109 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 21.
- ↑ Kimnach: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Vol. 65, 1991, pp. 254-257 ( online ).