LANCEOLATA (Nuttall) Britton & Rose, 1903
Synonyms :
Echeveria lanceolata Nuttall (1840) / Cotyledon lanceolata (Nuttall) Brewer & S.Watson (1876)
Dudleya brauntonii Rose (1903) / Cotyledon brauntonii (Rose) Fedde (1904) / Echeveria brauntonii (Rose) A.Berger (1930)
Dudleya congesta Britton (1903) / Cotyledon congesta (Rose) Fedde (1904) / Echeveria congesta (Rose) A.Berger (1930)
Dudleya elongata Rose (1903) / Cotyledon elongata (Rose) Fedde (1904) / Echeveria elongata (Rose) A.Berger (1930) / Dudleya lanceolata ssp. elongata (Rose) Moran (1951)
Dudleya hallii Rose (1903) / Cotyledon hallii (Rose) Fedde (1904) / Echeveria hallii (Rose) Nelson & Macbride (1913)
Dudleya lurida Rose (1903) / Cotyledon lurida (Rose) Fedde (1904) / Echeveria lanceolata var. lurida (Rose) Munz (1935)
Dudleya minor Rose (1903) / Cotyledon minor (Rose) Fedde (1904) / Echeveria minor (Rose) A.Berger (1930) / Echeveria laxa var. minor (Rose) Jepson (1936) / Dudleya nevadensis ssp. minor (Rose) Abrams (1945) / Dudleya cymosa ssp. minor (Rose) Moran (1957)
Dudleya parishii Rose (1903) / Cotyledon parishii (Rose) Fedde (1904) / Echeveria parishii (Rose) A.Berger (1930)
Dudleya robusta Britton (1903) / Cotyledon robusta (Britton) Fedde (1904) / Echeveria robusta (Britton) A.Berger (1930)
Dudleya reflexa Britton (1905) / Echeveria reflexa (Britton) A.Berger (1930)
Echeveria monicae A.Berger (1930)
Dudleya bicolor P.H.Thomson (1993)
Dudleya temeculana P.H.Thomson (1993)
Dudleya pendletonia P.H.Thomson (1993)
Subgenus Dudleya
Distribution : USA (California: South Coast, Transverse and Peninsular Ranges, Desert Mountains), Mexico (N Baja California); rock slopes, 30 - 1250 m.
Description (according to J. Thiede in IHSP, 2003) :
Stems erect, short, rarely 10 - 12 x 1 - 3 cm in diameter.
Rosettes 2.5 - 45 cm in diameter, usually with 25 - 30 leaves, solitary or with a few daughter rosettes formed within the rosette.
Leaves oblong-lanceolate, acute to abruptly pointed, 5 - 20 (-30) x 1 - 3 (-4) (basally 1 - 3) cm, glaucous or green.
Inflorescences : Scape 15 - 75 cm, inflorescences with 2 - 3 not or 1x branched scorpioid branches, these later ascending, 2 - 15 (-25) cm, with 2 - 20 flowers, lowermost pedicels 2 - 12 mm.
Flowers : Calyx 4 - 7 mm, sepals triangular-ovate, acute, 3 - 6 mm, petals elliptic to oblanceolate, acute, 10 - 16 x 3.5 - 5 mm, inside greenish to orange-yellow, outside yellow or mostly red or red-tinged or -patterned, tube 1 - 2 mm.
Flowering time : April to June.
Cytology : n = 34, 68
A widespread, variable and ill-defined complex (Moran 1951a). D. bicolor, D. pendletonia and D. temeculana appear to belong here as well.