MORGANIANUM  Walther, 1938

Distribution : Mexico (central Veracruz).

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

Glaucous-green stems.

Leaves crowded, in 5 obvious spirals, oblong-lanceolate or elliptic, acute, falcate, subterete, almost orbicular, glaucous, 15 - 30 x 5 – 8 mm thick, flowering branches pendent.

Inflorescences corymbs.

Flowers 5-merous, long-pedicellate, sepals broadly sessile, connate, unequal, triangular-acuminate, 5 - 9 mm, petals basaIly connate, lanceolate, acuminate, subcucullate, mucronate, red-purple, 10 - 12 mm, erect, filaments pink, anthers light yellow, nectar scales broad, emarginate, deep pink.

Cytology : 2n = 70

Common name : 'Burro's Tail'.

The Sedum morganianum habitat discovered  

by Miguel Cházaro, David Jimeno-Sevilla & Amparo Alvalat-Botana

Published in CactusWorld 29 (1), 13 - 18, 2011.

Original publication in Spanish