FULGENS VAR. OBTUSIFOLIA  (Rose) Kimnach, 1998 (engl./ fr.)

Synonyms :

Echeveria obtusifolia  Rose (1903)

Echeveria scopulorum  Rose (1905) / E. obtusifolia var. scopulorum  (Rose) von Poellnitz (1936)

Type : Pringle 7734, collected on bluffs of mountain cañon near Cuernavaca, Morelos, altitude 3’150 m, September 17, 1899.

Distribution : Mexico (Guerrero, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Morelos).

First Description by Rose as Echeveria obtusifolia in Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden III:8. 1903 :

Acaulescent or perhaps sometimes shortly caulescent, glabrous throughout.

Leaves forming a spreading rosette 20 cm broad, oblanceolate, rounded at apex, 3.5 cm broad at widest part, narrowed to 5 mm at base, thinnish (at least in herbarium specimens).

Flowering branches 20 – 30 cm long (naked in herbarium specimens seen).

Inflorescence a one-sided (?) raceme, erect or at least becoming so, 12 – 20-flowered.

Lower pedicels 10 mm long, ascending.

Flowers : Sepals unequal, ovate, corolla reddish, 10 – 12 mm long, rather borad, not strongly angled (as far as indicated by dried specimens).

Cytology : n = 27, 135, 162.

 Link to the summary by Kimnach in English and French.