ISI 2026-16. Echeveria subcorymbosa Kimnach & Moran.
This charming little rosette succulent has been known and grown since its first collection by Alfred Lau in the mid-1970s, reflecting its durability in cultivation, in specialist collections at least. Nevertheless, there is some variability meriting wider distribution of another collection. It wasn't formally described until 1994, twenty years after Lau's first collection. It is reported from two localities, just 20 km apart, but the second has broader, flatter leaves, and may merit naming as a subspecies, perhaps. The typical form has obovate leaves, rather thick, with an abaxial keel terminating in a mucronate tip, pinkish in good light like the keel and distal margins. The flowers are urceolate orange with yellow tips. The longer pedicels of lower flowers result in the flowers of an inflorescence being held in a cluster resembling a corymb. In fact, the inflorescence is a raceme (hence inclusion of this species in the series Racemosaeand the epithet subcorymbosa). Myron visited the type locality several times, providing the opportunity to sample various clones for introduction to cultivation. We offer divisions of HBG 72102, an offset collected January 18, 1992, by Myron Kimnach (MK 3206), M. Chazaro, R. Dorsch & M. Negrete, at the type locality: Mexico; Oaxaca; Laguna Encantada, ca. 5 km north of Juxtlahuaca, on steep gypsum cliffs at about 5400'.
Photo © 2026 by John Trager.
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