CHARADZEAE Gurgenidze, 1969
Section Sempervivum
Distribution : E Georgia; submontane regions on rocks in forests.
Description (according to 't Hart, Bleij & Zonneveld in IHSP, 2003) :
Rosettes (6-) 8 - 12 (-15) cm in diameter.
Stolons 15 - 30 (-35) cm, thick, pubescent, palish red.
Leaves spatulate, abruptly narrowed towards the tip, densely and shortly glandular-pubescent, pubescence and cilia unequal in length.
Flowering branches 40 - 50 (-60) cm, unequally glandular-pubescent, rarely also with eglandular hairs, stem leaves broadly lanceolate with broad clasping base.
Inflorescences corymbose, umbellate, with 3 - 5 many-flowered (60 - 80 flowers) cincinni, bracts lanceolate, long glandular-pubescent, 5 - 7 mm, pedicels ± 5 mm.
Flowers 13- merous, sepals basally connate, lanceolate, gradually acuminate, glabrous ventrally, green, slightly purplish, 5 - 6 mm, petals linear-lanceolate, abruptly acuminate, rose to pale rose, ± 11 x 2.5 mm, filaments rose, dark purple towards the base, anthers pale yellow.
Close to S. caucasicum but much larger.