Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus

Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus LRM219

These plants north of Estación Marte, COAH are of the form described as ‘variety macdowellii’.  They are small plants, generally less than 2.5cm across and it is common to see small groups of individual plants growing in a flat gypsum soil mud silt plains with very sparse vegetation.