Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Dudleya linearis (Greene) Britton & Rose, Bull. N. Y
Bot. Gard. 3: 16. 1903.
Cotyledon linearis Greene, Pittonia 1 : 285. 1889.
Caudex thick and fleshy, crowned by a dense rosette of leaves. Leaves light-green, not farinose, broadly linear, acuminate, 3-7.5 cm. long, 6-9 mm. broad, thick; flowering stems 1-1.5 cm. long, more or less bracteate; inflorescence consisting of 2 or 3 secund racemes, more or less glaucous, rather compact ; pedicels4 mm. long or less ; calyx deeply 5-lobed ; lobes broadly lanceolate, acute, 5 mm. long ; corolla greenish-yellow, 8-9 mm. long, its tube shorter than the calyx.
Type locality ; San Benito Island, off the coast of IvOwer 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
