Echeveria gigantea

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Echeveria gigantea
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Echeveria gigantea

Systematics
Order : Saxifragales (Saxifragales)
Family : Thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae)
Subfamily : Sempervivoideae
Tribe : Sedeae
Genre : Echeveria ( Echeveria )
Type : Echeveria gigantea
Scientific name
Echeveria gigantea
Rose & JAPurpus

Echeveria gigantea is a species of the genus Echeveria ( Echeveria ) in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae). The specific epithet gigantea comes from Latin and means 'enormously large' and refers to the size of the leaf rosette.

description

Echeveria gigantea reaches heights of growth of up to 50 centimeters. The shoot is usually unbranched and 2 to 3 centimeters in diameter. The leaf rosettes are 15 to 20 centimeters in diameter. The broad, obovate-spatulate leaves are blunt and have an attached tip. They are 15 to 20 inches long, 8 to 10 inches wide, green and purple on the edges.

Flower of Echeveria gigantea

The cymös -rispige inflorescence is 1 to 2 meters high and consists of 7 or more winding each having 7 to 16 individual flowers. The flower stalk becomes 2 to 8 millimeters long. The sepals, which are spread out to bent back and are very unequal, are up to 15 millimeters long. The pinkish red and slightly blue corolla is 5-sided and 12 to 17 millimeters long and 9 millimeters in diameter.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = approx. 94, approx. 108 or approx. 156.

Distribution and systematics

Echeveria gigantea is common in the Mexican states of Puebla and Oaxaca .

It was first described in 1910 by Joseph Nelson Rose and Joseph Anton Purpus .

proof

literature

  • Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 115 .

Individual evidence

  1. Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 93.
  2. Echeveria gigantea at Tropicos.org. In: IPCN Chromosome Reports . Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis
  3. ^ In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . Volume 13, 1910, p. 46 ( online ).

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