Cotyledon barbeyi (Cotyledon barbeyi)
Description
Erect soft-wooded shrub up to 2(-4) m high. Leaves sessile, obovate, 4.5-10 x 2-6 cm, cuneate at the base, obtuse to shortly acuminate at the apex, glabrous, glaucous. Flowers erect at first, later pendulous, in a glandular-pubescent pedunculate cyme. Calyx-lobes ovate-triangular, 5.5-7 mm long, acute, united for c. 2 mm, reflexed and eventually basally circumscissile. Corolla-tube 8-13(-15) mm long, swollen at the base; lobes 13-17 mm long, acute, reflexed, red or yellow. Stamens hairy at base. Seeds oblong-ovoid, c. 1 mm long, striate.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Saxifragales
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Family: Crassulaceae
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Genus: Cotyledon
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