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 :