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.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Saxifragales |
| Family: | Crassulaceae |
| Genus: | Echeveria |
| Species: | E. amoena
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Description edit
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.[2]
Taxonomy edit
Echeveria amoena was described in 1875 by Charles Jacques Édouard Morren, attributed to Louis De Smet, in Annales de Botanique et d'Horticulture.[3][4]
Echeveria amoena also forms the hybrid Echeveria subalpina × amoena, which is considered by some authors as the species E. meyraniana.
Etymology edit
- Echeveria : generic name given in honor of Mexican botanical artist Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy (1771? –1803)
- amoena : epithet Latin meaning "pleasant" or "lovely"[5]
Gallery edit
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Echeveria amoena flowers
References edit
- ^ Etter, Julia & Martin Kristen. "Echeveria amoena De Smet". The Crassulaceae Database. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ 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). 25. Lieja: 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.