| Family | CRASSULACEAE |
| Genus species | Echeveria quitensis (Kunth) Lindl |
| Bibliography | J. Hort. Soc. London 7: 268 (1852) |
| Native Range | Venezuela to w. South America |
| Primary Biome | Seasonally Dry Tropical |
| Habitat | rocky slopes |
| Description | bright green, leaves in rosettes, imbricate, spathulate, on base rounded, flowers in straight raceme, sepals 5, linear, acuminate, corolla pyramidal |
| Size | 10-25cm |
| Color | scarlet red |
| Bloom | summer |
| Ca | |
| Type | succulent subshrub |
| Cultivation | sunny, dry, rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
| Propagation | seed in spring, uncovered, germ. 1-3 months, 18-24°C cuttings of rosettes in late summer |
| Synonyms | Cotyledon quitensis Baker Cotyledon sprucei Baker Echeveria aequatorialis Rose ex Poelln. Echeveria bicolor var. turumquirensis Steyerm. Echeveria columbiana Poelln. Echeveria johnsonii E.Walther Echeveria quitensis var. sprucei (Baker) Poelln. Echeveria sprucei (Baker) A.Berger Echeveria stellata Deleuil ex É.Morren Sedum quitense Kunth |
| Territory | 8 Southern America 82 Northern South America (VEN Venezuela) 83 Western South America (CLM Colombia, ECU Ecuador, PER Peru) |