Echeveria

Stolonifera  ‘스톨로니페라’ (Baker) Otto

Synonym : Cotyledon stolonifera  Baker (1869).

 

Type (Lecto-) : Saunders Refugium Botanicum vol. 1, plate 63, 1869.

 

 

Description by Baker as Cotyledon stolonifera (in Sauders Refugium Botanicum, 1869) :

 

Glabrous, shortly caulescent, very copiously stoloniferous.

 

Leaves thirty to forty in a dense rosette, obovate-spathulate, the largest two to two and a half inches long by about half as broad five-sixths of the way up, the apex rounded and decidedly apiculate, the lower three-quarters spathulately narrowed to a broad base, both sides a pale bright green with a very slight glaucous tinge, the centre of the blade one-eighth of an inch thick.

 

Flowering branches six to eight inches long, with a few oblong-spathulate leaves under an inch long.

 

Flowers four to six in a close cyme, the bracts that subtend the main branches half an inch long. Ultimate pedicels a line and a half to two lines long.

 

Sepals thick, linear, very unequal, usually shorter than the yellowish-red decidedly pentagonal corolla, which is half an inch long.

 

 

Note :

 

1. Walther's description of E. stolonifera (Echeveria, 152-154, 1972) was made from plants in the US erroneously named E. stolonifera, i.e. not corresponding to Baker's plant / description. Therefore his text is completely useless and accordingly also Kimnach's summary in the Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants, 2003, based on Walther's book Echeveria.

 

2.  Walther's indication of the parentage as: E. secunda x E. gibbiflora  /  E. 세쿤다 x E. 기비플로라 - in view of the size of this plant - is in no way plausible.

 

Photos Emmanuelle Aubé

Photos Christophe Camassel

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