Echeveria

COLORATA fa BRANDTII  (Kimnach) Kimnach, 1998 

Synonym : Echeveria colorata var. brandtii  Kimnach (1980)

Type : E.C. Boutin & F.K. Brandt 2150, Mexico : Jalisco : On a mossy rock under oaks 6.5 miles from Laguna de Sayula on the road to Tapalpa, 6800' alt., Nov. 15, 1968.

Etymology : Named for Friedrich K. Brandt, one of the collectors.

 

Distribution : Mexico (Jalisco).

  

First Description as E. colorata var. brandtii by Kimnach in Cactus and Succulent Journal US 52(2): 59. 1980 :

Plant cespitose.

Main caudex to 9 cm high.

Rosette to 34 cm wide, with up to ca 75 leaves.

Leaves linear, abruptly narrowed at apical 2 - 4 cm, slightly narrowed toward base, the older ones 14 - 16 cm long and 3.5 - 4 cm wide, up to 2 cm thick along basal one-third, the younger ones 1 - 1.5 cm thick, somewhat s-shaped in side view, the apical third upcurving and concave on upper surface, the remainder of leaf flat to convex, the upper and lower surfaces slightly keeled, covered with a bluish-grey bloom, deeply suffused near apex and along margins with reddish purple, most noticeably on the under side.

Lower bracts to 18 mm long and 5 mm wide.

Cincinni 2, to 17 cm long, the bracteoles ovate-deltoid, the flowers ca 10 - 12 in each cincinnus, pedicels 8 - 10 mm long.

Flowers : Calyx gradually decurrent to pedicel, the sepals 2 - 4 mm wide near base, ca 5 mm wide near apex, the limb ca 9 mm wide, the petals obtuse, connate at base for 1.5 - 2 mm, ca 12 mm long and 3 mm wide.

Distributed by ISI n° 1198 (1980) as E. colorata var. brandtii.

Link to a short text in French.

Note :

Echeveria colorata fa brandtii had first been found near the road from Laguna de Sayula toward Tapalpa. For a long time it was considered to be rare as it was never found elsewhere. Later it was found growing together with the type in the Barranca de Ferrería de Tula which prompted Kimnach in 1998 to reduce it to a forma of E. colorata.

 

 

Photo Emmanuelle Aubé.
Photo Jacquie Koutsoudis, South Africa
Photos Bernie DeChant

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