Dudleya lanceolata

Dudleya lanceolata (Lanceleaf Liveforever) is a series of Dudleya.

Background
Plants tall, much branched; joints elongated, 3.5 cm. long, dull green, somewhat tuberculate; areoles distant, small; spines if present few, small, white, 1 cm. long or less; glochids yellow; flowers large, yellow. Type locality is in South America.

D. lanceolata was first described essentially as follows: Joints flattened, suberect, subnaked, with leaves 3 lines long; stems at first erect; joints lanceolate, green, when young with many leaves; spines (spicules?) in fascicles, the shortest of all species (except Cactus coccinellifer); leaves longer than in other species. The species was received by Haworth from W. Anderson; no habitat given. In 1812. Haworth calls it spear-shaped. He says it probably came from South America, and flowers in July. It had been in cultivation before 1796; it flowered in 1808 with Haworth and was described as follows: Flowers shiny yellow; filaments yellow, half as long as petals; style longer than stamens; stigmas 5, thick, obtuse, 2 lines long, sulphur-colored.