Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Echeveria turgida Rose, sp. nov
Acaulescent. Leaves very numerous, forming very compact rosettes, very turgid, spatulate-oblong. mucronate-tipped, grayish-green, somewhat glaucous, the tips and margin more or less tinged with red ; flowering stems about 10 cm. long, red above, paler below ; leaves 6-8 cm. long, acute, narrow, semiterete ; flowers 4-6, in a secund raceme ; lower pedicels 6-8 mm. long, the upper ones gradually shorter ; sepals spreading at right angles to the corolla-tube, the larger ones 6 mm. long, the two smaller minute; corolla rose-colored, 5-angled, 10 mm. long, its lobes pointed.
Collected by C. A. Purpus on limestone rock near Viesca, Coahuila, Mexico, February 20, 1904 ; flowered in Washington, January, 1905 (Rose no, 962).
- 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
