Echeveria carnicolor

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Echeveria carnicolor
Systematics
Order : Saxifragales (Saxifragales)
Family : Thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae)
Subfamily : Sempervivoideae
Tribe : Sedeae
Genre : Echeveria ( Echeveria )
Type : Echeveria carnicolor
Scientific name
Echeveria carnicolor
( Baker ) Morren

Echeveria carnicolor is a species of the genus Echeveria ( Echeveria ) in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).

description

Echeveria carnicolor forms branched shoots with a length of up to 6 centimeters and a diameter of 1 to 1.5 centimeters. The individual leaf rosettes are 7 to 10 centimeters in diameter. The oblong, lanceolate and blunt to almost pointed leaves are up to 4 to 7 inches long and 1 to 1.5 inches wide. They are 5 to 6 millimeters thick, densely papillary, glittering and colored grayish green or purple green.

The evenly panicle branched and often basal branched inflorescence becomes up to 15 centimeters long. The bracts can be easily separated and form roots. The flower stalk is up to 8 millimeters long. The widely spread sepals are up to 6 millimeters long. The clearly 5-edged corolla is up to 10 millimeters long and 6 millimeters in diameter. It is salmon orange at the top and flesh-colored at the bottom.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 36.

Distribution and systematics

Echeveria carnicolor is common in Mexico in the state of Veracruz .

It was first described in 1870 by John Gilbert Baker as cotyledon carnicolor . In 1874 Charles Jacques Édouard Morren put the species in the genus Echeveria. A synonym of the species is Cotyledon carnicolor Baker .

proof

literature

  • Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 110-111 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Echeveria carnicolor at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
  2. ^ JG Baker: Refugium Botanicum; or, Figures and Descriptions from Living Specimens of Little Known of New Plants of Botanical Interest, Volume 3, Plate 199, 1870 London online (PDF)
  3. ^ Édouard Morren: La Belgique Horticole. Volume 24, p. 158, 1874 online

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