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Hechtia hintoniana Burt-Utley, Utley & García-Mendoza

Publ: Phytoneuron 59: 1–17. Figure 1 (2011)

Type: MEXICO.México. Ladera con Guerrero, San Antonio, Tlatlaya, 750 m, 20 Jul 1954, E. Matuda et al. 31124 (holotype: MEXU; isotypes: CAS, MEXU, MO, NY, US). Figure 1.

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Distribution: MEXICO.México, Michoacán

Habitat: terrestrial in deciduous forests, as well as in barrancas, dry roadsides and thickets, 750-900 m. Elev.

Etymology: This species is named in honor of George B. Hinton (1882–1943), who first collected this species in 1934 and made many important plant collections in then remote regions in the states of México, Guerrero, and Michoacán. Hinton noted on the herbarium label of Hinton et al. 8098 that the plant was dead and maguey-like, an observation that is not surprising since individuals of a number of Hechtia species give the appearance of being dead because of their leaf coloration, coupled with their pubescence, and they have the general habit of some Agave species.

Hechtia hintoniana