GLORIOSA Rose, 1911
Series Gibbiflorae
Type : C.A. Purpus s.n., collected 1907 on rocks of Cerro de Santa Lucia, Puebla, 1500 - 1800 m, Rose 423 / US 615398.
Description by Rose in Contributions from the US National Herbarium 13: 295. 1911 :
Stems about 30 cm tall, crowned with a compact cluster of highly coloured leaves, from which arise several erect or spreading flowering stems sometimes 1 m long.
Leaves 10 - 15 cm long, 7 - 10 cm broad, rounded at apex, deep purple, thickish.
Flowering stem stout, glaucous, stem leaves narrow, thickish, very glaucous, inflorescence an open panicle, lateral branches bearing numerous sessile flowers.
Flowers : Sepals ascending, corolla 12 mm long, dark red, in bud broadly ovate, but when fully open showing a wide mouth.
Note :
Walther (Echeveria, 188 - 191, 1972) and accordingly also Kimnach in Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants, 2003, classify E. gloriosa as synonym of E. rubromarginata. This is simply wrong as a comparison of the photos on the respective type sheets undoubtedly evidences (see photo below).