Common Name: STONECROP FAMILY Habit: Annual to shrub [+- tree-like or climbing], fleshy. Leaf: generally simple, alternate or opposite (whorled), in dense to open, basal (or terminal) rosettes, or basal and cauline (not in rosettes), reduced on distal stem or not, often +- red. Inflorescence: generally a cyme, panicle-like, generally bracted. Flower: generally bisexual; sepals generally 3--5, generally +- free; petals generally 3--5, +- free or fused; stamens >> to = sepals, epipetalous or not; pistils generally 3--5(8), simple, fused at base or not, ovary 1-chambered, placenta 1, parietal, ovules 1--many, style 1 per pistil. Fruit: follicles, generally 3--5. Seed: 1--many, small. Genera In Family: +- 33 genera, +- 1400 species: +- worldwide, especially dry temperate; many cultivated for ornament. Note: Water-stressed plants often +- red. Consistent terminology regarding leaves, bracts difficult; in Aeonium and Dudleya, structures in rosettes are leaves, those on peduncles are bracts, and those subtending flowers are flower bracts; thus in taxa where the inflorescence is terminal, rosette leaves may "become" bracts as stem rapidly elongates to form an inflorescence. In Sedum structures below the inflorescence are interpreted as stems and leaves, not peduncles and bracts. Seed numbers given per follicle. SCIED: Scientific Editor: Bruce G. Baldwin, Thomas J. Rosatti. eFlora Treatment Author: Steve Boyd, except as noted Scientific Editor: Bruce G. Baldwin, Thomas J. Rosatti.
Common Name: DUDLEYA, LIVEFOREVER Habit: Perennial herb, fleshy, glabrous, bisexual. Stem: generally caudex- or corm-like, branched or not, +- covered with dried leaves. Leaf: in rosettes, evergreen or +- deciduous in summer (withering, falling or not), waxy or not, base wounding purple-red (yellow) or generally not. Inflorescence: cyme; flower bracts +- subtending pedicels, < bracts; bracts alternate. Flower: sepals 5, fused below; petals 5, fused at base, erect to spreading above; stamens 10, epipetalous; carpels 5, +- fused below. Fruit: follicles 5, erect to spreading, many-seeded. Seed: < 1 mm, narrowly ovoid, brown, striate. Etymology: (W.R. Dudley, 1st head of Botany Department, Stanford University, 1849--1911) Note: Fruit just before opening generally most reliable for orientation; insect damage may cause branching in taxa characterized as non-branching. Unabridged Note: Whether or not leaves of Dudleya cymosa subsp. costifolia, Dudleya saxosa subsp. saxosa, Dudleya variegata wound purple-red, red, yellow, or some other color at base when removed is evidently unknown. eFlora Treatment Author: Stephen Ward McCabe Reference: Thiede 2003 in Eggli (ed.) Illus Handbook Succulent Pls 6 (Crassulaceae):85--103. Springer
Habit: Rosettes 1--many, 0.5--30 cm wide. Stem: 0.2--3.5 cm wide. Leaf: generally evergreen, 1.5--17 cm, 2.5--50 mm wide, generally oblanceolate to spoon-shaped (ovate or linear-oblanceolate), glaucous or not, tip acute or often acuminate to mucronate. Inflorescence: peduncle 3--30(50) cm, 1--10 mm wide; 1° branches generally 2--4, generally spreading to ascending, branched 0--3 ×; branches 1--5(17) cm, 2--10(20)-flowered; pedicels generally 5--15 mm. Flower: sepals 1.5--5 mm, deltate-ovate, acute; petals 7--14 mm, 1.5--3.5 mm wide, fused 1--3 mm, elliptic to lanceolate, narrowly acute, yellow to red. Chromosomes: 2n=34.
Dudleya cymosa (Lem.) Britton & Rose subsp. ovatifolia (Britton) Moran
NATIVE Habit: Rosettes 1--few, 1--6 cm wide. Stem: 1--1.5 cm wide. Leaf: generally 6--10, 2--5 cm, 15--25 mm wide, oblong to ovate to ovate-deltate with wide base, dark green adaxially, +- red abaxially, not glaucous, not papery when dry, tip acuminate to mucronate. Inflorescence: +- asymmetric radially; peduncle 3--15 cm, 3--3.5 mm wide, +- ascending; lower bracts +- spreading, not or +- plump; 1° branches 3--4, generally simple, 1--3 cm, 3--5-flowered; pedicels 3 mm, 1 mm wide. Flower: petals bright yellow (pls with orange or red-marked petals rare, may be hybrids). Ecology: Shaded, rocky outcrops and slopes; Elevation: 150--500 m. Bioregional Distribution: s WTR (Santa Monica Mtns), PR (Santa Ana Mtns). Flowering Time: May--Jun Jepson eFlora Author: Stephen Ward McCabe Reference: Thiede 2003 in Eggli (ed.) Illus Handbook Succulent Pls 6 (Crassulaceae):85--103. Springer Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Listed on CNPS Rare Plant Inventory Previous taxon: Dudleya cymosa subsp. marcescens Next taxon: Dudleya cymosa subsp. paniculata
Citation for this treatment: Stephen Ward McCabe 2012, Dudleya cymosa subsp. ovatifolia, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=50238, accessed on October 03, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on October 03, 2024.
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