LANCEROTTENSE Murray, 1899

Synonym : Sedum nudum var. lancerottense  (Murray) Fröderström (1932)

Distribution : Canary Islands (Nothern Lanzarote, Famara region), growing on ledges and vertical, westfacing slopes, exposed to wind, fog and clouds coming from the ocean, often together with Aichryson tortuosum, Monantes laxiflora and lichen. 

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

Glabrous perennial herbs, non-flowering shoots slender, much-branched, trailing and ascending, basally somewhat woody, rooting, 5 - 10 cm tall, forming small tufts or loose mats.

Leaves alternate, sessile, crowded at the branch tips, subovate to ovate, 5 - 6 mm, rounded, terete to subterete, pale green, often with a silvery hue, flowering branches erect or ascending to 10 cm tall.

Inflorescences few-flowered cymes with 2 - 3 short cincinni, bracts 2 per fIower.

FIowers 5-merous, sessile or shortly pedicellate, sepals basally free, spurred, unequal, ovate, ± 4 mm, rounded, petals free, oblong, 5 - 6 mm, acute, pale yellow.

Cytology : 2n = 26.

A distinct species belonging to the comparium of Ser. Macaronesia Fröderström. - [H. 't Hart]