BELLA fa MAJOR (Walther) Kimnach, 1997 (engl./ fr.)
NOT KNOWN TO BE IN CULTIVATION.
Synonym : Echeveria bella var. major Walther (1972)
Type : MacDougall 1958/B.180, CAS 413925, collected on Pan-American Highway near Nabenchauc, before San Cristobal Las Casas, ca 2000 m.
Distribution : Mexico (Chiapas : Known only from type locality).
First Description by Walther as E. bella var. major in Echeveria, p.358, 1972 :
Quite similar to var. bella, but differing clearly in having
- larger leaves, obscurely keeled above, which may be 8 cm long and 2 cm broad near apex, to 9 mm wide at base;
- only three of the lower pedicels were 2-flowered,
- the sepals appear somewhat broader and rather more ascending;
- the corolla is 11 mm long.
Cytology : n = 15.
Link to a summary in English and French.
Note :
Flora Mesoamericana lists the specimen Molina 21446 (Field Museum n° 1710664 & 1772345), collected in Guatemala and originally considered a Sedum species, as E. bella fa major, determined by F.R. Barrie - however the specimen in question represents anything but not an Echeveria ….
There is definitely no E. bella fa major in Guatemala.