Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Dudleya nubigena (Brand.) Britton & Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot
Gard. 3: 22. 1903.
Cotyledon nubigena Brand. Proc. Calif. Acad. II. 3 : 136. 1891.
Glaucous ; basal leaves numerous, broadly spatulate to oblong-lanceolate, abruptly acute, thick, 6-8 cm, long. Flowering stems 4-5 dm. high, divided at top into 2 or 3 onesided racemes, their leaves ovate, acute, cordate-clasping, 1 cm. long; pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long, slender, ascending; calyx-lobes deltoid, acute, equaling or longer than the corollatube ; corolla reddish, less than 1 cm. long, its segments separate to below the middle.
Type locality : Summits of the Sierra de I^aguna, southern I,ower California. Distribution : Southern I^ower 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