LOZANOI Rose, 1905 

NOT IN CULTIVATION

Series Gibbiflorae

Type : Pringle & Lozano 11890, collected in mountains above Etzatlan, Jalisco, Mexico, October 27, 1903. US 460734.

Etymology : For Filamon Lozano, one of its discoverers.

Distribution: Mexico (Jalisco, known only from the type locality, never been recollected).

First Description by Rose in Britton & Rose, North American Flora 22: 23, 1905 :

Acaulescent.

Leaves forming a dense rosette, lying flat upon the ground, lanceolate or strap-shaped, 10 cm long or more, 2 – 4 cm broad at widest point, flattened and rather thickish except at the base, but here very thick and somewhat channeled, acute, glabrous, the central ones copper-colored.

Flowering stems 30 – 40 cm long, inflorescence a short panicle.

Flowers : Sepals unequal, ovate, acute, corolla light copper-colored, the lobes acute.

Note :

When Walther wrote his description of E. lozanoi (Echeveria, 151, 1972)  plants of this species were not extant any longer, however there were hybrids which wrongly bore this name. He admits that he did not know the true species and that he had to content himself with describing it on the basis of the type specimen and Rose's text. Nevertheless he added specifications he could not possibly have gained from the type sheet - i.e. are pure inventions / lies. So his already superfluous text is of no use at all and accordingly also Kimnach's text in the Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants, 2003, based on Walther.

For more details see p. 123-124 in https://www.crassulaceae.ch/docs/939bcf5a506299eba8cc8a7aa93e1973_Crassulacea__Nr._10_-_Revision_Walther_Echeveria.pdf