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Echeveria DC.

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Echeveria DC., Prodr. [A. P. de Candolle] 3, 401 (1828)
Echeveria DC.

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Exotic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region

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DC.
DC.
1828
401
ICN
Echeveria DC.
genus
Echeveria

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Echeveria

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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.

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Echeveria DC.
Echeveria
Echeveria DC.

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Exotic
Cultivated
New Zealand
Political Region
Recorded as "echeveria species"; Subtropicals, Vol. 2, No. 3, p. 34,35

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Echeveria DC.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Echeveria DC.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Echeveria DC.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
3 February 2014
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