Echeveria setosa
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Echeveria setosa is a succulent plant also known as the Mexican Firecracker in English. It belongs to the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae) and comes from the plateau of central Mexico .
description
Echeveria setosa is an evergreen , succulent, perennial plant with a short caudex that forms a dense rosette of leaves. The rosette of fleshy, spatulate or obovate and acuminate to prickly pointed, up to 7–8 cm long leaves is up to 5 (10) cm high and up to 30 cm wide. The leaves are usually covered with small, white and bristly, more or less long hairs that serve, among other things, as sun protection. In spring it grows up to 30 cm long, more or less whitish hairy, plump, green to purple-reddish, more or less leafy inflorescence stalks that have a few small, orange-red to yellow and stalked, five-fold flowers with a double envelope . There are 10 short stamens . The upper stamps with short styluses are just approximated. There are small nectar glands present.
Small, reddish-brown and many-seeded follicles are formed.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 25.
Systematics
It was first described in 1910 by Joseph Nelson Rose and Carl Albert Purpus . A distinction is made between the following varieties :
- Echeveria setosa var. Deminuta J. Meyrán 1989
- Echeveria setosa var. Ciliata (Moran) Moran 1993
- Echeveria setosa var. Minor Moran 1993
- Echeveria setosa var. Oteroi Moran 1993
- Echeveria setosa var. Setosa
literature
- Abraham H. Halevy: Handbook of Flowering. Volume II, CRC Press, 1985, 2018, ISBN 0-8493-3911-1 , pp. 455 f.
Web link
- Variation and Varieties in Echeveria setosa Rose & Purpus (Crassulaceae) on crassulaceae.com.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli : Succulents . 2. completely revised Edition. Ulmer, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5396-1 .
- ↑ Echeveria setosa of December 12, 2002 ( Memento of April 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Martin Haberer, Hans Graf: 500 hardy succulents and cacti from A-Z . Ulmer, Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-8001-5487-6 .