Echeveria crenulata
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Echeveria crenulata is a species of the genus Echeveria ( Echeveria ) in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Echeveria crenulata develops shoots up to 10 centimeters or longer. The rhombic obovate leaves are 10 centimeters and more long and up to 7 centimeters wide. At the base they are 2 centimeters wide. They have an attached tip, the leaf margins are flat or strongly to finely wavy and not very tiny. The leaf blade is not glaucous , but green, the edges are dark reddish to brown in color.
The racemose-panicle inflorescence becomes 50 centimeters and more high and is composed of 9 or more short coils , each of which carries 4 to 12 individual flowers. The flower stalk is up to 1 centimeter long. The widely spread to back-bent sepals are 10 millimeters long. The urn-shaped and 5-edged corolla is about 18 millimeters long and pinkish to yellowish in color. At the base it has a diameter of 12 millimeters, at the throat rarely up to 16 millimeters.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = approx. 124.
Distribution and systematics
Echeveria crenulata is common in Mexico in the state of Morelos near the capital Cuernavaca .
It was first described in 1911 by Joseph Nelson Rose .
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literature
- Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 112 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Echeveria crenulata at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
- ^ Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. Smithsonian Institution, Vol. 13, 191, p. 295 ( online ).
Web links
- Description and photos at www.crassulaceae.ch