Echeveria amoena

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Ordo: Saxifragales

Familia: Crassulaceae
Subfamilia: Sempervivoideae
Tribus: Sedeae
Genus: Echeveria
Series: E. ser. Paniculatae
Species: Echeveria amoena
Name

Echeveria amoena De Smet ex É.Morren, Belgique Hort. 25: 216. 1875.

Synonyms

Heterotypic
Echeveria microcalyx Britton & Rose, Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 13: 295. 1911.
Echeveria purpusii K.Schum. in Wittm., Gartenflora 45: 608, fig. 97. 1896.
Echeveria pusilla A.Berger, Gartenflora 53: 206, fig. 30. 1904.

Distribution
Native distribution areas:

Continental: Northern America
Regional: Mexico
Mexico Central (Puebla), Mexico Gulf (Veracruz).

References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition
References
Primary references

Morren, C.J.É. 1875. La Belgique Horticole; Annales de Botanique et d'Horticulture 25: 216.

Additional references

Low, J.E. (2008) Echeveria listings C. (English version) International Crassulaceae Network. Published on internet [1].
Jimeno-Sevilla, H.D. 2008, El género Echeveria (Crassulaceae) en Veracruz, México. Tesis de Licenciatura, Facultad de Biología, Universidad Veracruzana. Xalapa, Veracruz México. 126 p.

Links

Hassler, M. 2019. Echeveria amoena. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2019. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Dec 02. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Echeveria amoena. Published online. Accessed: Dec 02 2019.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Echeveria amoena in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Dec 02. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2019. Echeveria amoena. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 02 Dec 2019.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Echeveria amoena in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 07-Oct-06.

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.

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.

References

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.
Morren, Édouard (1875). "Echeveria amoena". La Belgique Horticole (in French). Lieja. 25: 216. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
"Echeveria amoena ex E. Morren". Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
Griffith, Chuck (1996). "ambigens - amorphus". Dictionary of Botanical Epithets. Retrieved 8 May 2017.
Etter, Julia & Martin Kristen. "Echeveria amoena De Smet". The Crassulaceae Database. Retrieved 8 May 2017.