Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Dudleya saxosa (M. E. Jones) Britton & Rose, Bull. N. Y
Bot. Gard. 3: 15. 1903.
Cotyledon saxosum M. E. Jones, Contr. West. Botany 8 : 28. 1898.
Tufted, acaulescent. Leaves numerous, fleshy and semiterete in living specimens, in dried specimens flattened and apiculate, very narrow, 2.5-8 cm. long, green or somewhat glaucous when young ; flowering stems 10-25 cm. long, reddish, their leaves ovate-linear, a little clasping at base; pedicels 10-12 mm. long, erect; calyx deeply 5-parted, 5-8 mm. long, the lobes lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate; corolla 10-12 mm. long, at first yellowish but drying reddish, the lobes rather broad and acute.
Type locality : Panamint Canon, California. Distribution : Panamint mountains of southern California.
- 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
