Echeveria affinis (Echeveria affinis)
Description
Echeveria affinis usually reaches stature heights of up to 5 centimeters and forms slow shoots. The leaf rosettes are 6 to 8, sometimes up to 22 inches in diameter. The broadly reversed lanceolate and short-pointed leaves are 3.4 to 7, sometimes up to 11 inches long and 1.1 to 2.4, sometimes up to 4 inches wide. They are green to almost black in color and have an almost flat surface The 20 to 30, sometimes up to 40 centimeters high inflorescence forms at the top of flattened cymen These have three to five outstretched branches, each with four to ten single flowers. The petals are up to 8 millimeters long, the sepals are pressed. The scarlet corolla is dull pentagonal shaped, 10 millimeters long and at the throat about 8 millimeters in diameter. The chromosome number is 2n = 60
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Saxifragales
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Family: Crassulaceae
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Genus: Echeveria
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