Echeveria

Echeveria huehueteca   Standley & Steyermark, 1944

Distribution : Guatemala (Dept. Huehuetenango).

Description by Standley & Steyermark in Field Mus. Bot. Ser. 23(4): 159. 1944 :

Plant acaulescent, glabrous.

Roots fleshy-fibrous.

Leaves numerous, sessile, densely rosulate, oblong-oblanceolate to subelliptical or broadly cuneate-obovate-oblong, 2 - 5 cm long, 1 - 2.5 cm wide, apex subacuminate to obtuse or subrotund and cuspidate-apiculate, base very broadly cuneate, green on both sides or sometimes reddish (grass-green on both sides, sometimes dull or deep green suffused with lavender or brownish purple, not glaucous).

Flowering stems erect, tight, 20 - 30 cm tall, sparcely leaved, leaves much smaller, lanceolate-linear to oblong-lanceolate, to 18 mm long, sessile, acute to acuminate, 5 - 11 flowers in a lax raceme 7 - 13 cm long, pedicels thick, 2 - 3 mm long.

Flowers : Sepals united at base, very unequal, broadly linear to oblong-ovate, obtuse or subacute, fleshy, green, almost appressed or sometimes more or less patent, 6 - 8 mm long, corolla red, 8 - 10 mm long, almost free to the base, petals narrowly lanceolate, suberect, at apex a little outcurved, dorsally keeled, follicles ca 8 mm long, oblique.

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