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<- Hechtia pycnostachya Hern.-Cárdenas, Siekkinen, López-Ferr. & Espejo

Publ: Syst. Bot. 45(3): 473-475 fig. 1, 6. (2020)

Type: MEXICO. Guerrero, municipio de Olinalá, en los alrededores del camposanto de Tomatepec (17°54024.70N, 98°50023.70W), 1615 m, June 25, 2019, A. Siekkinen, R. Hernández-Cárdenas, R. Cerros- Tlatilpa and L. G. Galv´an 1415 (holotype: UAMIZ!).

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Habitat: it grows terrestrially in oak forests, on river slopes, 1550-1630 m. Elev. img

Etymology: The specific epithet refers to the sessile to subsessile flowers densely disposed on the rachis of the spikes, from the Greek: pyxno§ (pycnos) 5 dense, and staxy§ (stachys) 5 spike.

Hechtia pycnostachya