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Hechtia vicesphaeroblasta Siekkinen, Hern.-Cárdenas, Espejo & López-Ferr.

Publ: Systematic Botany 47(1): 201-204 fig. 1,8 (2022)

Type: MEXICO. Puebla, municipio de Acatlán de Osorio, km136 de la carretera Acatl
an deOsorio a Izúcar de Matamoros (18 13’22.9”N, 98 09’11.6”W), 1347 m, 20 August 2020, R. Hernández-Cárdenas, S. Lara- Godínez & A. Hernández-Rábago 2441# (holotype: UAMIZ!).

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Distribution: Mexico: Puebla

Habitat: terrestrially or saxicolous in tropical deciduous forests, 1300-1400 m. Elev.

Etymology: From the Latin word “vice,” which means substitute, alternate, and sphaeroblasta, the species which H. vicesphaeroblasta most closely resembles and with which it can be confused.

Phenology: Plants bloom from August to September.

Hechtia vicesphaeroblasta