RACEMOSA var. RACEMOSA (engl./ fr.)

Synonyms :

Echeveria lurida  Haworth (1831) / Cotyledon lurida  (Haworth) Baker (1869)

Type : Schiede 520, collected around 1828 at Jalapa, Veracruz.

Etymology : for the shape of the inflorescence.

Distribution : Mexico (Veracruz : Xalapa).

Description :

Stem < 5 cm long, 1 – 1.5 cm in diameter, sparsely branching.

Leaves rosulate, narrowly oblong-oblanceolate, acute, 5 – 10 x 1,5 – 2,5 cm, upper face deeply concave, margins cartilaginous, green to reddish brown, slightly glaucous.

Inflorescences racemes 30 – 50 cm, bracts easily detached, pedicels 4- 10 mm.

Flowers : Sepals widely spreading to reflexed, the longest < 5mm; corolla conoid-urceolate, 9 – 15 mm long, bright red or orange red.

Cytology : n = 18.

Note :

1. The plant Haworth described as E. lurida in 1831 originated in the botanical garden of Berlin. Haworth apparently ignored that it had already been described as E. racemosa by Schlechtendal & Chamisso in the previous year - i.e. Echeveria lurida and E. racemosa are identical. Pretended wild localities for E. lurida therefore always concern  E. racemosa which may be more widespread than commonly thought; and pretended differences between E. racemosa and so-called E. lurida either reflect the variability of the former or are due to a misidentification of the latter.

2. Walther's texts about E. lurida and E. racemosa, based on his ignoring the fact that the two names refer to one and the same species, need not be considered any further. And his indications in the Key to Series Racemosae are of course obsolete as well. For details see p. 298-302 in Revision of Walther's monograph Echeveria, 1972.

3. The Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants (2003) cites Echeveria lucida Steudel (1840) as a synonym of E. racemosa. This is wrong twofold :

1. Steudel wrote : Echeveria lucida Haworth (not Steudel) and

2. ’lucida’ is simply a misspelling of ‘lurida’.

There is no Echeveria lucida Steudel.

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Synonymes :

Echeveria lurida  Haworth (1831) / Cotyledon lurida (Haworth) Baker (1869).

Distribution : Mexique (Veracruz : Jalapa).

Description :

Tige < 5 cm de long, 1 – 1,5 cm de diamètre, modérément ramifiée.

Feuilles en rosette, étroitement oblongues-oblancéolées, aiguës, 5 – 10 x 1,5 – 2,5 cm, dessus profondément concave, marges cartilagineuses, vertes à marron rougeâtres, légèrement glauques.

Inflorescence en racème de 30 – 50 cm, bractées se détachant facilement, pédicelles de 4- 10 mm.

Fleurs : Sépales largement écartés à recourbés, les plus longs < 5mm ; corolle conique-urcéolée, 9 – 15 mm de long, rouge vif ou orange-rouge.

Cytologie : n = 18.