ALBIFLORA Rose, 1903
Synonyms :
Cotyledon albiflora (Rose) Fedde (1904) / Echeveria albiflora (Rose) A.Berger (1930)
Dudleya moranii D.A.Johansen (1932)
Subgenus Dudleya
Distribution : Mexico (Central and southern Baja California as well as Cedros, Natividad and Espiritu Santo Islands).
Description (according to J. Thiede in IHSP, 2003) :
Stems to 30 x 1 - 2 cm.
Rosettes 2 - 6 cm in diameter, with 10 - 25 (-35) leaves, open, normally branched and cushion-forming, cushions with up to > 200 rosettes and to 70 cm in diameter.
Leaves spreading, attenuate from the base or somewhat widened in the middle, slender-pointed to long-attenuate, tip terete, 2 - 6.25 x 0.5 - 1.5 cm (basally 0.5 - 2 cm), bright green or glaucous, sometimes with red tinge.
Flowering branches slender, 4 - 45cm, red.
Inflorescence with 2 - 3 simple or 1x branched scorpioid branches, these 3 - 8 (-20) cm, with 3 - 10 (-25) flowers, bracts spreading, intensely red, pedicels 2 - 6 mm.
Flowers : Calyx 5 - 8 mm, sepals triangular, acute, 3 - 6.5 mm, petals oblong to oblanceolate, acute, somewhat curved, 11 - 15 x 1.5 - 3 mm, pure white, tube 3 - 4.5 mm.
Flowering time : April to June.
Cytology : n = 34, 51, 68, ± 85
See also D. ingens. D. moranii is here synonymized with a question mark.