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) there were no more plants of this species extant, however there were hybrids which wrongly bore this name. He cited the description by Rose and added supplements that he could not possibly have gained from the type sheet he referred to. So his already superfluous text is additionally suspicious, and accordingly also Kimnach's text in the Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants, 2003, based on Walther.