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Pinguicula gypsicola Brandegee (1911) Topographic
map
of Mexico with location of the city of San Luis
Potosí (close to the distribution range of P.
gypsicola).
Known
distribution
range of P. gypsicola in gypsum hills south of
the village of Villa Juaréz located in the Mexican
State of San Luis Potosí.
Landscape
with
gypsum hills southwest of Villa Juaréz, San Luis
Potosí.
27th August 2009 
Gypsum
hill
close to the village of Buenavista, San Luis Potosí,
located at approximately 1270 m a.s.l.; habitat of P.
gypsicola.
27th August 2009  Location
of
P. gypsicola close to Buenavista; typical habitat
with Selaginella cuspidata, Hechtia sp.
as well as xerophytic shrubs on crystalline gypsum or in
a thin layer of gypsum soil.
27th August 2009  Habitat
near
Buenavista with Agave stricta, another typical
accompanying species of P. gypsicola. During the
rainy season you can find here as well the annual
butterwort P. takakii.
27th August 2009 
Habitat von P.gypsicola at hte more southern
location close to the village of Santa Gertrudis,
San Luis Potosí (P. gypsicola grows there
together with P. ehlersiae) .
27th August 2009  Crystalline
gypsum
at the location of Buenavista with Selaginella
cuspidata; the edges of the gypsum are
razor-sharp!
27th August 2009  Cactus
species
growing on a vertical gypsum cliff; accompanying flora
of P. gypsicola.
27th August 2009  Reddish
summer
rosettes of P. gypsicola with immature seed
capsules growing on fewly eroded gypsum (location
Buenavista).
27th August 2009  Plant
of
P. gypsicola with first summer leaves growing in
a crevice of a crystalline gypsum cliff; the old flower
stalks and the summer leaves from the previous growing
season are still visible.
27th August 2009  Plants
with
green summer leaves at the location of Santa Gertrudis
(plants grow in the shade).
27th August 2009  Group
of
P. gypsicola plants with green-reddish summer
leaves growing in semi-shade at the location Santa
Gertrudis.
27th August 2009  Winter
rosette
(in cultivation).
5th January 2014  Flowering
plants
of P. gypsicola growing in eroded gypsum below
of Selaginella cuspidata (as the Selaginella
plants do not have developped green summer leaves
yet, this indicates the still dry conditions at the
location at this time point).
27th August 2009  Several
plants
with either open flowers or flower buds in gypsum soil
covered with organic matter at the location of Santa
Gertrudis.
27th August 2009  Reddish
summer
rosettes growing on vertical gypsum cliffs along the
road between Buenavista and Santa Gertrudis (the old dry
summer leaves from the previous growing season are still
visible).
27th August 2009  Flowering
P. gypsicola plant growing underneath a Hechtia
species, well protected by the spiny leaves.
27th August 2009  Front
view
of two flowers bearing a dark purple circle around the
entrance of the corolla tube.
27th August 2009  Close-up
of
a flower showing only some light purple coloured also
the violet veins around the entrance of the corolla
tube; also the violet stigma is clearly visible.
27th August 2009  Close-up
of
a flower with slightly overlapping corolla lobes of the
upper lip, showing also a dark purple circle around the
entrance of the corolla tube.
27th August 2009 |
