STELLIFORME S.Watson, 1885
Subgenus Sedum
Distribution : S USA (Arizona, New Mexico), Mexico (Chihuahua); 1800 - 3260 m.
Description (according to 't Hart & Bleij in IHSP, 2003) :
Perennial herbs with small fleshy rootstock and slender stems, branched above, 5 - 12 cm tall.
Leaves alternate, linear to oblanceolate, obtuse, 4 - 9 mm.
Flowering branches erect or ascending.
Inflorescences compact cymes with monochasial branches, bracts suboblong, ± 4 mm.
Flowers 6- to 6-merous, sessile, sepals basally free, broadly spurred, unequal, linear to oblong, obtuse, ± 3 mm, petals free to the base, oblong, acute, broadly mucronate, white tinged with purple, ± 4 mm.
Cytology : 2n = 22, 24, 29, 44, 48, 52, 108 ± 2, 120 ± 4