Echeveria ballsii
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Echeveria ballsii is a species of the genus Echeveria ( Echeveria ) in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae). The specific epithet ballsii honors the English botanist Edward K. Balls (1892–1984).
description
Echeveria ballsii grows branched and the shoots reach a maximum length of 5 centimeters. The leaf rosettes reach about 7 centimeters in diameter. The oblong obovate and slightly pointed leaves are 3.5 centimeters long and about 1 centimeter wide. They are plump and green in color.
The inflorescence forms clusters of 25 to 30 centimeters long, with about 10 nodding single flowers. The flower stalk is up to 10 millimeters long. The sepals are arranged in an ascending order. The orange to scarlet red corolla is 12 millimeters long and about 8 millimeters in diameter.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 88.
Distribution and systematics
Echeveria ballsii is common in Colombia in the Departamento de Boyacá and in the Departamento de Cundinamarca .
It was first described in 1958 by Edward Eric Walther .
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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.
- ↑ Echeveria ballsii at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ^ Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 30, Number 2, 1958, p. 44 ( online ).
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