Echeveria amoena

Echeveria amoena
	Echeveria amoena
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Saxifragales
Family:	Crassulaceae
Genus:	Echeveria
Species:	E. amoena
Binomial name
	Echeveria amoena; De Smet ex É.Morren
Synonyms
	Echeveria microcalyx Britton & Rose (1911) ; Echeveria purpusii Britton (1905) (Basionym) ; Echeveria pusilla Berger (1904) ;

Echeveria amoena is a species of succulent plant in the family Crassulaceae, endemic to semi-arid areas of the Mexican states of Puebla, Tlaxcala, and Veracruz.

Description

It is a herbaceous, perennial plant with a stem up to 8 cm long. It grows in the form of a compact rosette, commonly less than 5 cm in diameter, with fleshy, obovate-oblanceolate, full-margin and accumulated apex leaves.

The inflorescence is a simple, reddish zinc, 10 to 22.5 cm high, with several alternate ascending, succulent, green, reddish or pink-orange bracts. The corolla includes petals similar to bracts.^[2]

Taxonomy

Echeveria amoena was described in 1875 by Charles Jacques Édouard Morren, attributed to Louis De Smet, in Annales de Botanique et d'Horticulture.^[3]^[4]

Echeveria amoena also forms the hybrid Echeveria subalpina × amoena, which is considered by some authors as the species E. meyraniana.

Etymology

Echeveria : generic name given in honor of Mexican botanical artist Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy (1771? –1803)

amoena : epithet Latin meaning "pleasant" or "lovely"^[5]

Gallery

Echeveria amoena flowers

References

^ Etter, Julia & Martin Kristen. "Echeveria amoena De Smet". The Crassulaceae Database. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
^ Jimeno Sevilla; Héctor David (2008). El género Echeveria (CRASSULACEAE) en Veracruz, México (PDF). Xalapa-Enríquez: Universidad Veracruzana. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
^ Morren, Édouard (1875). "Echeveria amoena". La Belgique Horticole (in French). 25. Lieja: 216. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
^ "Echeveria amoena ex E. Morren". Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
^ Griffith, Chuck (1996). "ambigens - amorphus". Dictionary of Botanical Epithets. Retrieved 8 May 2017.

[1] Etter, Julia & Martin Kristen. "Echeveria amoena De Smet". The Crassulaceae Database. Retrieved 15 April 2024.

[UV-2] Jimeno Sevilla; Héctor David (2008). El género Echeveria (CRASSULACEAE) en Veracruz, México (PDF). Xalapa-Enríquez: Universidad Veracruzana. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2017.

[3] Morren, Édouard (1875). "Echeveria amoena". La Belgique Horticole (in French). 25. Lieja: 216. Retrieved 8 May 2017.

[Trop2-4] "Echeveria amoena ex E. Morren". Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 8 May 2017.

[5] Griffith, Chuck (1996). "ambigens - amorphus". Dictionary of Botanical Epithets. Retrieved 8 May 2017.

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