1. Dudleya virens (Rose) Moran, Desert. Pl. Life. 14: 191. 1943.
Green liveforever, bright green dudleya Green liveforever, bright green dudleya
Stylophyllum virens Rose in N. L. Britton and J. N. Rose, New N. Amer. Crassul., 34. 1903
Caudices to 10 dm × 1-6(-8) cm, clumps to 20 dm diam. Leaves without resinous odor; rosette 15-55-leaved, 5-25 cm diam.; blade whitish or light green, linear to triangular-lanceolate [-oblanceolate], laminar or semiterete, 5-25 × 0.6-3 cm, 2-8 mm thick, 2-5 times wider than thick, base 8-40 mm wide, surfaces sometimes farinose, not viscid, not oily. Inflorescences: cyme densely 2-5-branched and obpyramidal, or 15+-branched and cylindric, (branches scattered proximally); branches simple or 1-3 times bifurcate; cincinni 3-20-flowered, somewhat circinate, 1-10 cm; floral shoots (reddish), 1-7 dm × 2-15 mm; leaves 12-45, ascending, oblong, to 5 × 0.5-1.5 cm. Pedicels 1-3(-6) mm. Flowers: petals widespreading or slightly reflexed from middle, connate 1.5-2.5 mm, white or rosy, triangular-ovate or elliptic-oblong, 7-11 × 2-3.5 mm, apex acute, corolla 14-23 mm diam.; pistils connivent, suberect to ascending, 6-10 mm, (base tapering); styles 2-4 mm. Follicles ascending with adaxial margins 40-50º from vertical. 2n = 34, 68.
Subspecies 4 (3 in the flora): California, nw Mexico.
Subspecies extima Moran is endemic to Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico.
SELECTED REFERENCE Moran, R. V. 1995. The subspecies of Dudleya virens (Crassulaceae). Haseltonia 3: 1-9.
