Echeveria craigiana
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Echeveria craigiana is a species of the genus Echeveria ( Echeveria ) in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Echeveria craigiana rarely forms branched shoots that reach a diameter of 15 millimeters and usually do not become longer than 5 centimeters. The linear, elongated leaves are almost petal-round, flat on the top and rounded on the underside. They end in a pointed and short point, which is sub-like-awning. The brownish to brownish-green and slightly glaucous leaves are 8 to 11 inches long and about 2 inches wide.
The cymous-paniculate and strongly branched inflorescence is up to 50 centimeters long. The flower stalk becomes 20 millimeters long. The sepals spread out towards the tip are up to 9 millimeters long. The tubular-bell-shaped red corolla is about 11 millimeters long and has a diameter of 13 millimeters at the throat.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 60, 64 or approx. 128.
Distribution and systematics
Echeveria craigiana is common in the state of Chihuahua Mexico .
It was first described in 1952 by Edward Eric 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 craigiana at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ^ Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 24, Number 1, 1952, pp. 28-29 ( online ).
Web links
- Description and photos at www.crassulaceae.ch