Echeveria amoena

Echeveria amoena is a species of succulent plant in the family Crassulaceae, endemic to semi-arid areas of the Mexican states of Puebla, Tlaxcala, and Veracruz.

Echeveria amoena
Echeveria amoena
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Crassulaceae
Genus: Echeveria
Species:
E. amoena
Binomial name
Echeveria amoena
De Smet ex É.Morren

Description

It is a herbaceous, perennial plant with a stem up to 8 cm long. It grows in the form of a compact rosette, commonly less than 5 cm in diameter, with fleshy, obovate-oblanceolate, full-margin and accumulated apex leaves.

The inflorescence is a simple, reddish zinc, 10 to 22.5 cm high, with several alternate ascending, succulent, green, reddish or pink-orange bracts. The corolla includes petals similar to bracts.[1]

Taxonomy

Echeveria amoena was described in 1875 by Edward Morren, attributed to Louis de Smet, in Annales de Botanique et d'Horticulture.[2][3]

Etymology
Echeveria : generic name given in honor of Mexican botanical artist Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy (1771? -1803)
amoena : epithet Latin meaning "pleasant" or "lovely"[4]

Synonyms
  • Echeveria microcalyx Britton & Rose[5]
  • EcheveriEcheveria amoenaa pusilla A.Berger Echeveria amoenaEcheveria amoena[3]

Echeveria amoena also forms the hybrid Echeveria subalpina × amoena , which is considered by some authors as the species E. meyraniana.

  • Echeveria amoena flowers

References
  1. Jimeno Sevilla; Héctor David (2008). El género Echeveria (CRASSULACEAE) en Veracruz, México (PDF). Xalapa-Enríquez: Universidad Veracruzana. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 October 2016. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  2. Morren, Édouard (1875). "Echeveria amoena". La Belgique Horticole (in French). Lieja. 25: 216. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  3. "Echeveria amoena ex E. Morren". Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  4. Griffith, Chuck (1996). "ambigens - amorphus". Dictionary of Botanical Epithets. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
  5. Etter, Julia & Martin Kristen. "Echeveria amoena De Smet". The Crassulaceae Database. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
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