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The only habitat of E. distachya (together with Orostachys spinosa) within Novosibirsk, occupying just some 100 x 30 m, found by me and Olga Berezina on May 2, 1996 and then mentioned in all editions of the Red Data Books of Novosibisrk Province. This time I found it having suffered from a spring grass fire. It seems to have been very slight, leaving scarce traces. Nevertheless, the leaf tips of O. spinosa were burnt while all (very numerous) individuals of E. distachya were dead. I managed to find only three small individuals green, one of which (shown in the first photos) had strobilae.