Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Echeveria amoena I^.de Smet; Morren, Belg. Hortic. 25: 216. 1875
Acaulescent or nearly so, with numerous short offsets, pinkish-pruinose. Leaves in small but dense rosettes, 2 cm. long or less, 6-8 mm. wide, thick, spatulate-oblanceolate, acute ; flowering branches slender, ascending, 1-2 dm. long, their tips drooping at anthesis, their leaves oblong to oblanceolate, 1 cm. long or less, blunt, readily falling away; flowers 1-8 ; pedicels slender, 1-2 cm. long ; calyx-lobes orbicular, about 1.5 mm. broad, appressed to the base of the corolla ; corolla coral-red, 8-10 mm. long, 4 mm. thick, the lobes twice as long as the tube, their tips somewhat spreading, acute.
Type locality : Mexico. Distribution : Vera Cruz.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, George Valentine Nash, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose, Per Axel Rydber. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
