Echeveria

PRINGLEI var. PRINGLEI   (engl./ fr.)

Type : Pringle 1853, collected on dry shaded ledges of the barranca near Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 1888 (1889 ?).

Etymology : Named for its discoverer, Cyrus Guernsey Pringle.

Distribution : Mexico (Jalisco : Barrancas near Guadalajara).

 

 

First Description by Watson as Cotyledon pringlei in Proceedings of the American Academy of Art and Sciences 25: 148. 1890 :

Stems stout, decumbent, a foot long or more, very leafy and branching.


Leaves (and branches) puberulent, rather thin, broadly oblanceolate, acute, mostly 1 or 2 inches long.

Raceme simple, terminal, the foliaceous bracts nearly equalling the flowers, pedicels 2 - 4 lines long.

Flowers : Sepals narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the corolla (6 to 8 lines), petals united only near the base, red, very acutely and prominently carinate, acuminate, stamens a third shorter.

Cytology : n = 23



Link to the French translation.

 

 

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