Geohintonia

Geohintonia mexicana (discovered in 1992) is a species of cacti, the only species in the genus Geohintonia. This genus is named after its discoverer George S. Hinton. As its specific epithet suggests, the plant is found in Mexico (Nuevo León), where it grows on gypsum hills near Galeana.[1]

Geohintonia mexicana
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Core eudicots
Order:
Caryophyllales
Family:
Cactaceae
Subfamily:
Cactoideae
Tribe:
Cacteae
Genus:
Geohintonia

Glass & Fitz Maurice[1]
Species:
G. mexicana
Binomial name
Geohintonia mexicana
Glass & W.A.Fitz Maur.[1]


The species has one form: Geohintonia mexicana f. cristata. 


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 Metasyntactic variable, which is released under the 
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