E. panamesiorum L1247 Locality: bridge on the road from Huejuquilla to San Juan Capistrano, Zacatecas, Mexico 1000m.
Outstanding and incomparable flowers with a very spiny tube
(photo taken the first day just after the disclosure of the bud)

The flowers have a shocking yellow-green throat surrounded by a contrasting fuchsia corolla. The inner yellow is like the phosphorescent colour of some pen marker or even more luminescent.

Description: Solitary or occasionally clumping and forming cluster up to 30 cm in diameter
Stems: Green up to 35 cm tall, 8 cm in
Ribs: 9-16
Root: Fibrous
Areoles: Oval
Radial spines: 9-16 light-grey or brownish to dark-grey adpressed up to 13 mm
Central spines: 0-3projecting up to 25 mm brown to black
Flower: Funnel shaped length up to 9 cm, diameter up to 8 cm bright purple-pink with a yellow-green throat. Bud hairy and spined, tube green, filament greenish, anther yellow, pollen yellow, style white-greenish, stigma 9-14 lobed green.


 

Scientific name:  Echinocereus pamanesiorum Lau 1981:36-41.

TL: Mexico, Zacatecas, Rio Huaynamota, bridge between Huejuquilla & San Juan Capistrano, Lau 1247 (MEXU).

Heterotypic synonyms:

Echinocereus pamanesiorum ssp. bonatzii (Römer) Römer 1997:45.
= Echinocereus bonatzii.

Origin:  Mexico (Zacatecas) grows on stony hills with various other succulent plants.

Conservation status: Listed in CITES appendix 2.

The same flower the second day
(Tones are more delicate)