Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Echeveria pulvinata Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 5. S 1903
Cotyledon pulvinata Hook. f. Bot. Mag. pi. 7918. O 1903.
Caulescent, 12 cm. high, naked below, somewhat branching. Young branches, leaves and sepals covered with a dense white velvety pubescence ; leaves clustered in a rosette at the top, obovate, tapering to a narrow base, 2.5-3 cm. long, 2 cm. broad, rounded at apex and apiculate, 5-6 mm. thick ; flowers in a leafy raceme ; pedicels 10-12 mm. long, bracteolate ; sepals ovate, acute, unequal, the longest about half the length of the corolla ; corolla scarlet, sharply 5-kngled, 18-20 mm. long, pubescent without, the lobes apiculate.
Type locality : Tomellin Canon, Oaxaca, Mexico. Distribution : Oaxaca.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, George Valentine Nash, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose, Per Axel Rydber. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
