Echeveria

BELLA fa MAJOR  (Walther) Kimnach, 1997  (engl./ fr.)

NOT KNOWN TO BE IN CULTIVATION.

 

Synonym : Echeveria bella var. major  Walther (1972)
 

 

Type : MacDougall 1958/B.180, CAS 413925, collected on Pan-American Highway near Nabenchauc, before San Cristobal Las Casas, ca 2000 m.

 

Distribution : Mexico (Chiapas : Known only from type locality).

 


 

First Description by Walther as E. bella var. major in Echeveria, p.358, 1972 : 

 

Quite similar to var. bella, but differing clearly in having

 

- larger leaves, obscurely keeled above, which may be 8 cm long and 2 cm broad near apex, to 9 mm  wide at base;

 

- only three of the lower pedicels were 2-flowered,

 

- the sepals appear somewhat broader and rather more ascending;

 

- the corolla is 11 mm long.

 

Cytology : n = 15.

 

Link to a summary in English and French.

 

Note :

Flora Mesoamericana  lists the specimen Molina 21446 (Field Museum n° 1710664 & 1772345), collected in Guatemala and originally considered a Sedum species,  as E. bella fa major, determined by F.R. Barrie - however the specimen in question represents anything but not an Echeveria …. 

 There is definitely no E. bella fa major in Guatemala.

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