SHAVIANA Walther, 1972 (engl./ fr.)
Series Angulatae
Type : Meyer & Rogers 2527, collected on boulders in open places, el. 1690 m., along road between Adelaida (and) Dulces Nombres, Tamaulipas, Mexico 1948.
Etymology : Named for the Missouri Botanical Garden, aka “Shaw’sGarden” because staff members (Meyer and Rogers) had collected it.
Distribution : Mexico : A small area in southwestern Tamaulipas and southeastern Nuevo León. Native to shaded mountainous areas, where it grows in pine-needles on boulders, 900-2000 m.
Description by Eric Walther in Echeveria, 270, 1972 :
Plants glabrous.
Rosettes without evident caudex, apparently simple, ultimately becoming cespitose ( ?), to 10 cm in diameter.
Leaves very numerous, crowded, to 50 or more in each rosette, to 5 cm long or more, 15 – 25 mm broad or more, apparently thinnish, flat or at times with margins finely crenulate or strongly undulate-crispate, at base narrowed into long, narrow petiole which may be less than 5 mm wide for a distance of 15 – 20 mm, at apex triangular-rounded and deltoid-mucronate.
Inflorescences one or two or more, scape to 30 cm tall, erect, peduncle 2 – 3 mm thick at base, bracts to 10 or more, appressed to ascending, linear- to oblong-obovate, acute or shortly acuminate, long-spurred at base, 10 – 15 mm long, racemes simple secund, to 12 cm long, strongly nodding in bud, with 12 – 13 or more flowers, pedicels very short, rarely over 2 mm long.
Flowers : Sepals ascending, not appressed, linear- to deltoide-lanceolate, acute, unequal, longest to 9 mm long, corolla erect at anthesis, 10 – 13 mm long, 6 – 7 mm in basal diameter, pentagonal, petals narrow, keeled, the slender tips somewhat spreading.
Flowering time from June on.
Cytology : n = 13.
Link to a summary of the above description in English and French.
Note :
While - apparently - plants in the wild always have simple inflorescences, in cultivation branched inflorescences are possible.
Plants in habitat in Mexico. The following photos show the variability of this species - all plants growing at the same place.
Plantes en habitat mexicain. Les photos en bas démontrent la variabilité de cette espèces - les plantes se trouvent toutes au même endroit.
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Photo Mateo Lichtenstein
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Photos Emmanuelle Aubé.
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Photo Thomas Delange
E. shaviana 'Pink Frills' has been selected in cultivation, i.e. is not a wild form :
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Photo Joan Steele
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Photo Margrit Bischofberger