SIMULANS Rose, 1905 (engl./ fr.)
Synonym : Echeveria elegans var. simulans (Rose) von Poellnitz (1936)
Type : Pringle s.n., collected in a cañon near Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, in 1903. Protologue cites Rose 768.
Etymology : Referring to the similarity with E. elegans.
Series Urbiniae
Distribution : Mexico (Nuevo León)
First Description by Rose in Britton & Rose, North American Flora 22: 22. 1905 :
Very similar to E. elegans, but
- rosettes flatter,
- the leaves at most spreading, never reflexed, thinner especially in the upper half, numerous, somewhat mucronate,
- flowering branches at first nodding, becoming erect, pale below, pinkish above,
- stem-leaves linear, small and bract-like,
- sepals pinkish, unequal, narrow, acute, appressed to the corolla,
- corolla narrow, the base rose-coloured, the tips of the lobes and inner surface yellow,
- carpels more or less spreading when mature.
It differs from E. elegans in habit and leaves, has a narrower corolla, and narrower and more appressed sepals.
Cytology : n = 32.
In habitat :
Photos Gerhard Köhres
E. simulans (Pajonal) :
Laguna Sanchez :
E. simulans, Galeana, Nuevo Leon :
Echeveria simulans (Ascensión) :
Photos Jacquie Koutsoudis
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