Taxon: Fouquieria fasciculata Nash
Family: Fouquieriaceae

Collector: James Henrickson   2077   

Date: 28 January 1966

Locality: Mexico, Hidalgo, Ca. 37 (air) miles NNW of Pachuca on steep, rocky, calcareous N-E facing slopes above Lago de Metztitlan, ca. 8 mi NW of Metztitlan.

20.65  -98.6 +-15000m.

Elevation: 1200 meters (3936ft)

Habitat: On steep, rocky, calcareous N-E facing slopes.

Description: Shrubs to ca 13 ft tall with several woody branches above and barrel-like enlargements below to 15 in. dia. containing parenchymatous xylem; stems and trunk shiny green with gray corky patches; petals white, sepals white to green. Population collection.

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