PUBLISHED IN: Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 85(2): 268. 1998.

TYPE: Mexico: Michoacán: 6–7 km WNW of Apatzingan, along road to Buena Vista Tomatlan, on old lava flow, shrub-covered and pastured, elev. ca. 300 m, small scattered colonies among rocks, under shelter of shrub canopies, on dense, black, fine-textured soil, Sept. 10–11, 1972, J.V.A. Dieterle 4379 (holotype: MICH; isotype: K).

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BASIONYM: Apatzingania arachoidea Dieterle. Brittonia 26(2): 129, f. 1–8. 1974.

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DESCRIPTION: Annual, fruit ripen in ground.

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