SETOSA var. SETOSA (engl./ fr.)
Type : C.A.Purpus 419, collected 1907 on rocks. Cerro de la Yerba, just west of San Luis Atolotitlán, southern Puebla. US 592487.
Distribution : Mexico (Puebla: San Luis Atolotitlán, Cerro de la Yerba).
Description by Rose :
Acaulescent giving out offsets from the base.
Leaves 100 or more, forming dense almost globular rosettes (10 - 12 cm in diameter), thickish but flattened, spatulate to oblanceolate, 4 - 5 cm long with an ovate, acute tip, slightly ridged along the middle both above and below, covered on both sides with setiform hairs.
Flowering stems setose, 20 – 30 cm high, bearing small bract-like setose leaves.
Inflorescence usually simple, consisting of an 8 – 10-flowered secund raceme, lower pedicels 2 – 3 cm long, sepals green, linear, setose, spreading, petals 10 – 15 mm long, red at base, yellow at tip, smooth within, short-setose without, stamens white, styles greenish.
Cytology : n = 25
Link to a summary of the above description in French.
As the photos show, E. setosa var. setosa is an extremely variable species.
Plants in habitat in Mexico :
Plantes dans l'habitat mexicain :