Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Dudleya ovatifolia Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 20. 1903
Glabrous, green, 1.5 dm. high or less. Flowering stems rigid ; basal leaves ovate, shining above, acute, about 2 cm. long; leaves of the flowering stems ovate, or the lower ovatelanceolate, obtuse, or the lower acute, 5-8 mm. long; cymes few-flowered; pedicels very slender, 1 cm. long or less ; flowers about 1 cm. long ; calyx-segments triangular-ovatelanceolate, about 2.5 mm. long, nearly as long as the corolla-tube; corolla bright-yellow, its segments lanceolate, acute.
Type locality : Sierra Santa Monica, California. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, George Valentine Nash, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose, Per Axel Rydber. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
