SEMPERVIVUM ssp. PERSICA  (Boissier) Eggli, 1988

Synonyms :

Umbilicus persicus  Boissier (1843) / Cotyledon persica  (Boissier) Bornmüller (1914) / Rosularia persica  (Boissier) A.Berger (1930) / Sedum persicum  (Boissier) Hamet (1958)

Umbilicus libanoticus var. glaber  Boissier (1872) / Sedum sempervivum var. glabrum (Boissier) Hamet (1929)

Cotyledon libanotica var. glabra  (Boissier) Parsa (1948) / Rosularia radiciflora ssp. glabra  (Boissier) Chamberlain & Muirhead (1972) / Rosularia sempervivum var. glabra  (Hamet) Assadi (2000)

Umbilicus radiciflorus  Steudel ex Boissier (1872)

Umbilicus gendjnamensis  Stapf (1886) / Cotyledon gendjnamensis  (Stapf) Parsa (1948)

Rosularia radiciflora  Borissova (1939)

Distribution :

South-eastern, eastern and north-eastern Turkey, south-western Syria, Lebanon, Israel, north-western and western Iran, north-eastern Iraq, Armenia, Azerbaidzhan: 100 - 3000 m.

Description (according to U. Eggli in IHSP, 2003) :

Caudex mostly well-developed, to 1.7 cm in diameter, passing into 1 to several taproots.

Rosettes flattish or semiglobular, 1.5 - 10 cm in diameter.

Leaves oblong-linear to spatulate with rounded apex, 11 - 40 x 2 - 8 mm, dark green, glaucous or not, normally glabrous, margin espcially in the upper 2/3 conspicuously whitish-horny and serrulate to dentate.

Inflorescences lateral paniculate thyrses, 3 - 20 cm, flowers in the apical 1/3 only, completely glabrous or upper parts glandular-hairy.

Flowers 5-merous, ± tubular to narrowly funnel-shaped, 6 - 11 mm, glabrous or outside glandular-hairy, petals united for 1/2 – 2/3, pale to dark pink.

Cytology : 2n = 18

This widespread ssp. is very variable, esp. in its degree of glandular-hairiness.