Echeveria DC.
Details
Echeveria DC., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 3, 401 (1828)
Echeveria DC.
Nomenclature
DC.
DC.
1828
401
ICN
Echeveria DC.
genus
Echeveria
Classification
Subordinates
Vernacular names
Descriptions
Echeveria DC.
Perennial, acaulous or short-stemmed herbs, sometimes small, branched subshrubs. Lvs alternate, simple, entire, free, in loose or dense rosettes. Infl. axillary, a simple or branched cyme, often elongated and racemose and then fls secund, sometimes cymes paniculate and thyrsoid. Fls 5-merous, ± erect to horizontal, often pendent in bud. Sepals free or connate towards base, subequal to very unequal. Petals united at base, forming a tube except at spreading tips, thick and fleshy, usually orange to red, sometimes pale yellow to white; tube often angled towards base. Stamens 10, included, in 2 unequal or somewhat unequal whorls; inner whorl epipetalous. Carpels 5, united at base. Scales free, lunate or reniform, often truncate. Seeds numerous.
Taxonomic concepts
Historic biostatus
Exotic
Cultivated
New Zealand
Political Region
Recorded as "echeveria species"; Subtropicals, Vol. 2, No. 3, p. 34,35
Collections
Metadata
968bc7bb-d32d-45bf-9bfe-fcf8872afcfd
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
3 February 2014