SEMPERVIVUM ssp. SEMPERVIVUM
Synonyms :
Rosularia rosae Fedorov in sched. (s.a.)
Sedum racemosum Pallas ex Ledebour (1843)
Sedum sempervivum var. genuinum Hamet (1929)
Distribution : Eastern and south-eastern Turkey, central and northern Iran, Armenia, Azerbaidzhan; 900 - 2500 m.
Description (according to U. Eggli in IHSP, 2003) :
Caudex mostly well-developed, 0.6 - 1.5 cm in diameter.
Rosette flattish, 2 - 6 cm in diameter, solitary or offsetting.
Leaves oblong and truncate, or spatulate with rounded or emarginate apex, dark vivid green, glossy or dull, 1.8 - 6 cm, young densely glandular-hairy and viscid, old subglabrous with glandular-hairy margin.
Inflorescences lateral paniculate thyrses with up to 25 flowers, upper 1/2 completely glandular-hairy and viscid, drooping in bud.
Flowers 5-merous, narrowly funnelshaped, 0.8 - 1.1 cm, outside glandular-hairy, petals united for 3/5 (rarely less to 1/3), pink with purplish-pink venation.
Cytology : 2n = 18, 36
Intermediates with ssp. persica and ssp. libanotica are known.
Plants in habitat : Feslikan Yaylasi, Turkey :