HERNANDEZII Meyrán, 1990

Subgenus Sedum

Distribution : Mexico (Puebla), E hill slopes with oak forest, ± 2500 m

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

Perennial herbs with numerous ascending to pendent branched stems, ± 14 cm tall, covered with simple hairs.

Leaves in whorls of 5, obovate to elliptic, rounded to obtuse, terete, sometimes subterete, furfuraceous, 12 – 14 x 10 – 13 mm, 10 – 11 mm thick, flowering branches erect.

Inflorescences few-flowered cymes with dichasial bracts, pedicels  ± 3 mm, papillose.

Flowers 5-merous, sepals broadly sessile, lanceolate to triangular, subterete, papillose, light green, ± 3 x 1 mm, petals basally slightly connate, lanceolate, canaliculate, yellow, ± 5 mm, anthers creamy-white to yellow.

Obviously related to S. furfuraceum.