BATESII Hemsley, 1878
Synonyms :
Cotyledon galeottiana Hemsley (1878) / Altamiranoa galeottiana (Hemsley) Rose (1905) / Sedum galeottianum (Hemsley) Hamet (1929) / Villadia galeottiana (Hemsley) H. Jacobsen (1958)
Altamiranoa hemsleyana Rose (1905) / Villadia hemsleyana (Rose) H. Jacobsen (1958)
Distribution : S Mexico (Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas) to Guatemala.
Description (by 't Hart & Bleij in IHSP, 2003) :
Annual herbs with thickened elongate roots and erect or diffusely spreading stems, branching from the base.
Leaves alternate, oblanceolate, obtuse, narrowly spurred, 3.5 - 5 mm.
Flowering branches erect.
Inflorescences loosely corymbose or with elongate few-flowered cymes, bracts leaf-lilke, ca 2.5 mm.
Flowers 4- to 5-merous, subsessile, sepals basally free, shortly spurred, unequal, oblanceolate to oblong, obtuse, ca 4 mm, thick, petals basally slightly connate, oblong or lanceolate, obtuse, white, 4 - 4.5 mm.
Normally encountered in cultivation under the incorrectly applied name Villadia batesii.