CUCULLATA ssp. APICULATA Moran & C.H.Uhl, 1998
Distribution : Mexico (Hidalgo, Nuevo, León, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí); limestone rocks (exclusively?), 600 - 1800 m.
Differs from ssp. cucullata:
Petals oblong-obovate, acutish, strongly keeled, keel extending into a subdorsally attached 0.3 - 0.7 mm long mucro, inner petals apically sometimes broader than the outer and narrowly cucullate.
Cytology : n = 11, 21+ 1
According to the protologue so far sometimes confused with ssp. cucullata (e.g. by Walther (1937).
The photos on
are definitely wrong, the flowers are not cucullate.
In habitat in SLP :
Photo Gerhard Köhres