Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Echeveria retusa lyindl. Jour. Hort. Soc. London 2 : 306. 1847
Cotyledon retusa Baker, in Saund. Ref. Bot. 1 : sub pi. 64, no. 22. 1869.
Acanlescent or nearly so, glabrous throughout. Leaves in a dense rosette, obovate to spatulate, 7.5 cm. long; flowering stem 2 dm. long, leafy below; inflorescence a very compact panicle ; sepals narrow, very unequal, shorter than the corolla ; corolla strongly 5angled, bright-red, 15 mm. long.
Type locality : Anganguco, Michoacan, Mexico. Distribution : Mexico.
- 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
