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Orcutt's dudleya, tapertip liveforever

Blochman's dudleya, Blochman's liveforever

Leaves

3–50;

petiole 0.3–1.5 mm wide, to 1/3 as wide as blade;

blade green, oblanceolate or clavate-oblanceolate, 1–6 cm × 2–8 mm, 1–4 mm thick, base 1–4 mm wide, apex subacute to rounded, surfaces sometimes ± glaucous.

Inflorescences

cincinni 3–10-flowered, 1–6 cm;

floral shoots 3–12 cm × 0.5–2 mm;

leaves 8–25, ascending, blade triangular-ovate to -lanceolate, 0.5–2.5 cm × 3–10 mm, 2–4 mm thick, apex rounded to subacute or obtuse.

Flowers

with musky, sweet odor;

petals connate to 1 mm, widely spreading from near middle, white, ± yellowish green at base, red-lineolate on keel, drying purplish, elliptic, 6–10[–12] × 2–3.5[–5] mm, apex acute, corolla 8–20 mm diam.;

pistils separate, ascending;

ovary 3–4.5 mm;

styles 1–1.5 mm.

California

Corms

subglobose to oblong, 0.7–3.5 cm × 5–20 mm.

Follicles

widespreading, with adaxial margins nearly horizontal.

Dudleya attenuata

Dudleya blochmaniae

Distribution
from FNA
CA; nw Mexico
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from FNA
CA; nw Mexico
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Discussion

Subspecies 2 (1 in the flora).

Subspecies australis Moran occurs in Baja California.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Subspecies 2 (2 in the flora).

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Key
1. Rosette leaves 3-12, blade oblanceolate, 1-4(-6) cm; inflorescence leaves not or slightly glaucous.
subsp. blochmaniae
1. Rosette leaves 15-30(-50), blade clavate-oblanceolate, 1-3.5 cm; inflorescence leaves gray-glaucous.
subsp. insularis
Source FNA vol. 8, p. 176. FNA vol. 8, p. 193.
Parent taxa Crassulaceae > Dudleya > subg. Stylophyllum Crassulaceae > Dudleya > subg. Hasseanthus
Sibling taxa
D. abramsii, D. arizonica, D. blochmaniae, D. brevifolia, D. candelabrum, D. cespitosa, D. cymosa, D. densiflora, D. edulis, D. farinosa, D. gnoma, D. greenei, D. lanceolata, D. multicaulis, D. nesiotica, D. palmeri, D. parva, D. pulverulenta, D. saxosa, D. stolonifera, D. traskiae, D. variegata, D. verityi, D. virens, D. viscida
D. abramsii, D. arizonica, D. attenuata, D. brevifolia, D. candelabrum, D. cespitosa, D. cymosa, D. densiflora, D. edulis, D. farinosa, D. gnoma, D. greenei, D. lanceolata, D. multicaulis, D. nesiotica, D. palmeri, D. parva, D. pulverulenta, D. saxosa, D. stolonifera, D. traskiae, D. variegata, D. verityi, D. virens, D. viscida
Subordinate taxa
D. attenuata subsp. attenuata
D. blochmaniae subsp. blochmaniae, D. blochmaniae subsp. insularis
Synonyms Cotyledon attenuata, Stylophyllum attenuatum Sedum blochmaniae, Hasseanthus blochmaniae, Hasseanthus variegatus var. blochmaniae
Name authority (S. Watson) Moran: Desert Pl. Life 14: 191. (1943) (Eastwood) Moran: Leafl. W. Bot. 7: 110. (1953)
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