Echeveria chilonensis
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Echeveria chilonensis is a species of the genus Echeveria ( Echeveria ) in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Echeveria chilonensis grows with branched shoots that reach a length of up to 10 centimeters and a diameter of about 0.5 centimeters. The leaf rosettes are 7 to 11 centimeters in diameter. The linear-lanceolate to obscure-lanceolate-elongated leaves are pointed and reddish green to reddish in color. They are 3 to 7 inches long and rarely 0.5, but usually 1 to 1.5 inches wide.
The inflorescence forms clusters that are almost paniculate below. It is up to 60 centimeters long or longer and there are at least two individual flowers on the lower branches. The flower stalk becomes 2 to 10 millimeters long. The ascending to expanded sepals are 5 to 8 millimeters long. The 5-edged corolla is urn-shaped and cylindrical in shape and about 13 millimeters long. At the base it has a diameter of 7 millimeters and at the throat 5 to 7 millimeters. It is yellowish to almost white in color.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = about 260.
Distribution and systematics
Echeveria chilonensis is common in Bolivia in the departments of Santa Cruz , Cochabamba and Chuquisaca .
It was first described in 1898 as Sedum chilonense by Carl Ernst Otto Kuntze . Edward Eric Walther placed the species in the genus Echeveria in 1935 . There are the following synonyms : Sedum chilonense Kuntze and Echeveria vanvlietii van Keppel .
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literature
- Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 111 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Echeveria chilonensis at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ Revisio Generum Plantarum, Part 3, p. 83, 1893 online
- ↑ Cactus & Succulent Journal of America 7 (3): p. 40, 1935 online ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Photo of a cultivated plant