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Escobaria lloydii Las Palomas |
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Scientific name:
Escobaria
lloydii Britton & Rose
The Cactaceae (1923), page 57 Escobaria lloydii
N.L.Britton et J.N.Rose sp. nov. Collected by F. E. Lloyd in foothills
of Sierra Zuluaga, Zacatecas, Mexico, March 29, 1908 (No. 5).
Geographic Range:
Mexico, South of Coahuila and North of Zacatecas (Type
locality Sierra de la Zulaga).
Habitat: Mattoral microfilo and rosetofilo, on
stony soil,
gravely bajadas, silty flats; at moderate elevations in Chihuahuan
Desert Mountains.
Conservation status: Listed in
CITES appendix 2.
Etymology: Named after Francis E. Lloyd
(1868-1947), English-born cytologist, working in Canada and USA.
Taxon
synonyms:
- Coryphantha lloydii (Britton & Rose)
Fosberg
In Bull. S. Calif. Acad. Sci. 30: 58. (1931).
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Description: Small plants completely covered with spines, growing in
clumps and and resembling a small species of Echinocereus.
Stem: Up to 7 cm tall, diameter 3,5 cm, branching from the base.
Epidermis pale green.; old plants bearing naked corky tubercles.
Areoles: Roundish with white wool.
Radial spines: Approx 20 pure white, spreading, slender, up to 1
cm long.
Central spines: 4 to several, stout , 1,5 to 2,5 cm long white
with brownish to blackish tip.
Flowers: 2.5 cm. Long, creamy-white or greenish eventually with a
darker mid ribs on outside, filaments, style and stigma lobes greenish.
Fruit: Globular or ovoidal up to 12 mm long, red at maturity.
Seeds: Black, pitted, globose, 1 mm. in diameter.
This
species is near Escobaria tuberculosa, but it has much
stouter central spines and greenish white, eciliate inner perianth-segments.
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Cultivation:
Easy to cultivate in a very gritty substrate with
much drainage. Water regularly in summer, but do not overwater (very rot
prone), it prefer a completely dry place during winter. An unheated
greenhouse would be perfect. It can survive low temperatures (approx -12
C). Full sun to light shade
Propagation: Seeds (no
dormancy requirement, they
germinate best at 25°C in spring ) or usually by
offsets (readily
available),
or occasionally
grafted.
Photo of conspecific taxa, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants
belonging to the
Escobaria tubercolsa
complex
(This
Taxon
has lots of synonyms whit
several controversial varieties and subspecies and comprises a multitude
of different forms, but where each form is linked to others by
populations of plants with intermediate
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