FRAGRANS  't Hart, 1983

Distribution : SE France (Alpes Maritimes), NW Italy (Piemont)

Description (by 't Hart & Bleij in IHSP, 2003) :

Fragile densely glandular-pubescent rosulate perennials producing short axillary stolons with small termial rosettes.

Leaves alternate, flat, spatulate or pseudopetiolate with a circular to broadly elliptic lamina, sometimes subsessile, to 15 (-20) x ± 8 mm, obtuse or rounded, green or more often reddish; flowering branches erect or ascending, usually simple, to 20 cm.

Inflorescences usually lax and few-flowered cymes with 1 – 2 cincinni, pedicels (4-) 7 (-9) mm.

Flowers 5-merous, (5-)6 (-7) mm in diameter, reflexed before anthesis, sepals broadly sessile, slightly unequal, linear-oblong to elliptic or triangular-ovate, 1 – 2 x 0.5 (-1) mm, petals basally connate for 0.8 – 1.4 mm, lobes broadly ovate to cordate, (2-) 2.5 (-3.5) x (1.7-) 2.2 (-3.5) mm, long acuminate, white, filaments white, anthers red.

Cytology : 2n = 20

To read more on this species : "A Troglodytic Succulent : Sedum fragrans" by Ray Stephenson

Published in Cactus and Succulent Journal US, vol. 84 (1), 2012

See also Sedum alsinifolium

Type locality, town of Tende.