Echeveria colorata
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Echeveria colorata f. colorata |
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Echeveria colorata is a species of the genus Echeveria ( Echeveria ) in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Echeveria colorata grows with rarely branched shoots that reach a length of up to 8 centimeters. The leaf rosettes are 13 to 20 centimeters in diameter and form up to 40 leaves. The ovate to obovate leaves are 5 to 9 centimeters long, 3 to 5 centimeters wide and 8 millimeters thick. They are bluish- glaucous in color and overflowed with red at the edges and at the tip.
The up to 30 centimeter high inflorescence forms two to three branched and up to 5 centimeters long coils that carry 4 to 6 individual flowers. The flower stalk becomes 5 to 13 millimeters long. The sepals are 1 to 4 millimeters long. The urn-shaped corolla is 10 to 14 millimeters long and 6 to 8 millimeters in diameter. The pointed to blunt petals are reddish or orange near the base and yellow to light orange above.
The number of chromosomes for both forms is 2n = 54.
Distribution and systematics
Echeveria colorata is common in Mexico in the state of Jalisco .
It was first described in 1972 by Edward Eric Walther .
A distinction is made between two forms:
- Echeveria colorata f. brandtii (Kimnach) Kimnach , the leaves are linear-egg-shaped and 14 to 16 centimeters long, ( Syn .: Echeveria colorata var. brandtii Kimnach )
- Echeveria colorata f. colorata (Syn .: Echeveria lindsayana E. Walther )
proof
literature
- Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 112 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Echeveria colorata at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ↑ Echeveria, 91, 1972 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.
