Form #2
Origin : Tachira, a canyon on the south side of the Río La Grita, 1300 m.
In the wild, Form #2 differs from most other Venezuelan echeverias in its shiny, olive-brown, rather trough-shaped leaves, but the brown color is much weaker in my plants grown in cultivation.
Description by Ch. Uhl in Cactus and Succulent Journal US 65 (2): 83-84. 1993 :
Stems a bit weak and decumbent, up to about 40 cm tall and branched at the base.
Leaves 25 - 35 along the upper 10 cm or so of the stem, shiny and not at all glaucous, olive-brown to brown, grooved to hollowed above, oblanceolate and up to 50 mm, occasionally to 80 mm long, 27 mm wide and 5 mm thick at the base of the petiole, thinner in the blade.
Bracts up to 22 x 6 mm, progressively smaller upward and recurved.
Pedicels up to 5 mm long, but mostly shorter, diminishing upward, borne directly in the axils of the bracts and bearing two bracteoles that are up to 8 mm long.
Sepals are nearly equal, 5 - 7 mm long, 2 - 3 mm wide, and almost fully spreading at anthesis.
Corolla is pentagonal, with flat side, 12 mm long, pale orange outside, darkening with age, and pale yellow inside.
Stigmas are green.