Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Dudleya rusbyi (Greene) Britton & Rose, Bull. N. Y. ^
Bot. Gard. 3 : 13. 1903. '< f^^
Cotyledon Rusbyi Greene, Bull. Torrey Club 10 : 125. 1883.
Probably perennial, acaulescent. Leaves in dense rosettes, rhomboid-ovate, 1.5-2 cm. long, acuminate, glabrous but papillose-roughened ; flowering branches erect, 7-12 cm. high, glabrous ; leaves of flowering stems linear, scattered and small ; inflorescence a twobranched few-flowered cyme; pedicels 2-6 mm . long; calyx-lobes somewhat unequal, ovate, obtuse or acute; corolla deep-red or "coral-red," 10mm. long, the acuminate lobes united into a tube longer than the calyx. A very rare and interesting species, perhaps not properly referable to this genus.
Type locality : Near Prescott, Arizona. Distribution : Arizona.
- 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
