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Escobaria (subg. Acharagma) aguirreana subsp. kalasii
nomen provisorum - a new discovery from Nuevo León
Jaroslav Snicer; Zlatko Janeba; Richard
Kalas (CZ/USA)
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January 2, 2012
Jan Mynar - e-mail: escobaria@atlas.cz
This discussed taxon was described Zsolt Elhart in 2011 as Acharagma huasteca on the basis of the plants collected on 10.2.2008
in Municipio of Santa Catarina, Canon de la Huasteca, Nuevo León, Mexico. Holotyp has been saved in the herbarium MEXU (the information
incorporated from IPNI). The description
was published in the CactusWorld journal.
Elhart, Zsolt (2010): A new species of Acharagma (Cactaceae) from Mexico, CactusWorld 29(2): 105-106.
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December 31, 2010
Jan Mynar - e-mail: escobaria@atlas.cz
Note from Literature:
I.N.Cact.cz, 2010-11, 10(112)
Trip to Agave albopilosa
Short Jarda Snicer's stops
 Fig. No. 4 - Mountains (Canon de Huasteca) south of a Village is the home of new Escobaria aquirreana subsp. kalasii n. prov. |
 Fig. No. 5 - Escobaria aquirreana subsp. kalasii n. prov. |
Translation by Jan Mynar
August 8, 2010
Hans Havel - e-mail: hahavel@aon.at
Der neue Fund der A. aguirreana ist sehr überraschend.
Nun sind drei Verbreitungsgebiete bekannt, die jeweils voneinander ca 130km Luftlinie entfernt liegen, und dies
auf einer Achse Südost zu Nordwest. Dazwischen ist gut erforschtes Gebiet und sind aber keine Pflanzenfunde bekannt.
Ich war heuer am Osthang der Sierra San Marcos y Pinos bei Cuatro Cienegas und habe aber nur drei A. aguirreana
gefunden weil ich wieder einmal zu spät am Nachmittag mit den Aufstieg auf den Berg begann. Man muß schon ein schönes
Stück den Berg hinauf um die Pflanzen zu finden. Weiter oben sollen sie öfter vorkommen. Aber im März waren die Tage
auch noch nicht sehr lange.
 A. aguirreana east side of Sierra San Marcos y Pinos; ca. 1050m |
July 17, 2010
Jaroslav Snicer - e-mail: cult.tricka@seznam.cz
During our expedition to Mexico carried out this year our group - to be concrete Richard Kalas in person - discovered
a new subspecies of Escobaria aguirreana taxon, that was provisionally named subsp. kalasii.
 Fig. 1 - E. aguirreana subsp. kalasii, south of Canyon de Huasteca, NL |
The plants appear on perpendicular cliffs south of Canyon de Huasteca, NL. The plants grow in clusters, individual stems have got a closely cylindrical shape. It is similar to the situation of E. roseana taxon and its subsp. galeanensis. Other characters still have to be studied in detail as well as compared with one another.
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Note: Author of the web-pages (Jan Mynar) supposes that with respect to the description of this taxon, it should be, according to most recent trends, into a separate genus Acharagma as A. aguirreanum subsp. kalasii (at present nomen provisorum).
Translation by Jana Mynarova
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