Echeveria

Runyonii Echeveria ' Topsy Turvy '

The Echeveria ( Echeveria, Syn. Courantia Lem, Oliveranthus Rose, Oliver Ella Rose, Rose Urbinia ) are a genus of flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae ( Crassulaceae ).

The genus bears their name to commemorate the Mexican artist Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy plants. He participated in the Spanish "Real Expedición Botánica a la Nueva España ", which until 1803 the flora of Central and North America explored by 1786.

Description

Echeveria are mostly evergreen, perennial, succulent plants, which form more or less dense, stemless or located at the end of shoots rosettes. Many species also form small shrubs. The leaves are fleshy. The stems of the inflorescences are formed laterally in leaf axils. The inflorescences have fleshy bracts and vary from simple to branched thyrsi grapes with all transitions. The radial symmetry, five petals are red, orange, pink, rarely yellow. The sepals ( sepals ) and the petals ( petals ) are angular and keeled basally fused to Roehrig; the perianth is characterized bell - jar shaped up.

Dissemination

The natural home is the Neotropics of Texas, Mexico to southern Peru. Especially many species there are in Mexico.

System

The genus Echeveria contains some 150 species. Here the list of species currently accepted species, although according to the naming of the erstbeschreibenden botanist data on the publication of the first description are listed below:

• Echeveria acutifolia Lindley, Edward 's Botanical Register 28 (new 5): 29, 1842
• Echeveria affinis E. Walther, Cactus & Succulent Journal of America 30 (4): 105, figs. 54-55, 1958
• Echeveria agavoides Lem, Illustrations Horticoles 10. Miscellanées 1: 78, 1863
• Echeveria alata Alexander, Cactus & Succulent Journal of America 13: 136, ill, 1941.
• Echeveria amoena De Smet, 1875 Catalogue & La Belgique Horticole 25: 216, 1875
• Echeveria Amphoralis E. Walther, Cactus & Succulent Journal of America 30 (5): 149, ill, 1958.
• Echeveria andicola Pino, Haseltonia 11: 98 ( -102, figs 1-11. ). 2005
• Echeveria angustifolia E. Walther, Echeveria: 211, ill, 1972.
• Echeveria atropurpurea ( Baker) Morren, La Belgique Horticole 24: 156-157, 1874
• Echeveria australis Rose, Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden 3 (9): 6-7, 1903
• Echeveria bakeri Kimnach, Cactus & Succulent Journal of America 63 (5): 254-257, ills, 1991.
• Echeveria ballsii E. Walther, Cactus & Succulent Journal of America 30 (2): 44, ills, 1958.
• Echeveria bella Alexander, Cactus & Succulent Journal of America 13: 133, ill, 1941. Echeveria bella fo. bella
• Echeveria bella fo. major ( E. Walther ) Kimnach, Haseltonia 5: 51, 1998

• Echeveria bicolor var bicolor
• Echeveria bicolor var turumiquirensis Steyermark, Field Museum of Natural History, Botany 28: 244, 1952

• Echeveria chiclensis var backebergii (of Poellnitz ) Pino, Haseltonia 9: 2002
• Echeveria chiclensis var chiclensis

• Echeveria cuspidata var cuspidata
• Echeveria cuspidata var gemmula Kimnach, Cactus & Succulent Journal of America 77 (1):. 28-33, ills, 2005
• Echeveria cuspidata var zaragozae Kimnach, Cactus & Succulent Journal of America 77 (1):. 28-33, ills, 2005

• Echeveria fulgens fulgens var
• Echeveria fulgens var obtusifolia (Rose) Kimnach, Haseltonia 5: 51, 1998

• Echeveria halbingeri var Goldiana (E. Walther ) Kimnach, Haseltonia 5: 51, 1998
• Echeveria halbingeri var halbingeri
• Echeveria halbingeri var sanchez - mejoradae (E. Walther ) Kimnach, Haseltonia 5: 51, 1998

• Echeveria longissima var aztatlensis Meyran, Description Cactáceas y Mexicanas Suculentas 27 (2): 33-36, ills, 1982.
• Echeveria longissima longissima var

• Echeveria paniculata var maculata (Rose) Kimnach, Haseltonia 5: 51, 1998
• Echeveria paniculata var paniculata

• Echeveria pringlei var longisepala Kimnach, Haseltonia 5: 51, 1998
• Echeveria pringlei var parva Kimnach, Haseltonia 5: 52, 1998
• Echeveria pringlei var pringlei

• Echeveria quitensis var quitensis
• Echeveria quitensis var sprucei ( Baker) of Poellnitz, Fedde 's Repertorium specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis 39: 232, 1936

• Echeveria racemosa var citrina Kimnach, Cactus & Succulent Journal of America 56 (2): 73-75, ills, 1984.
• Echeveria racemosa var racemosa

• Echeveria semivestita var semivestita

• Echeveria setosa ciliata var ( Moran ) Moran, Cactus & Succulent Journal of America 65 (1): 32-33, ills, 1993.
• Echeveria setosa var deminuta Meyran, Description Cactáceas y Mexicanas Suculentas 34 (4):. 75-79, ills, 1989
• Echeveria setosa var minor Moran, Cactus & Succulent Journal of America 65 (1):. 33-35, ills, 1993
• Echeveria setosa var oteroi Moran, Cactus & Succulent Journal of America 65 (1):. 33-34, ills, 1993
• Echeveria setosa setosa var

Use

Many species of this genus are as succulent ornamental plants in culture, mainly because of the pretty colored rosettes.