ROSEA  Lindley, 1842 (engl./ fr.)

Synonyms :

Courantia echeverioides  Lemaire (1851)

Courantia rosea  Lemaire (1853)

Cotyledon rosea  (Lindley) Baker (1869) / Courantia rosea  (Lindley) Britton & Rose (1903)

Cotyledon roseata  Baker (1869)

Echeveria chiapensis  Rose ex von Poellnitz (1936)

Echeveria omiltemiana  Matuda (1963)

Series Spicatae

Type : Mexico, Anonymous, s.n.

Etymology : for the rose-coloured sepals.

Distribution : Mexico (Hidalgo, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas); usually epiphytic in cloud forests.

A comment on E. rosea and E. chiapensis can be read p. 282 in Revision of Walther's monograph Echeveria 1972.