GUATEMALENSE Hemsley, 1878
Subgenus Sedum
Distribution : Mexico (Chiapas, Oaxaca, Veracruz), El Salvador, Guatemala; ± 2300 m.
Description (by 't Hart & Bleij in IHSP, 2003) :
Perennial subshrubs with procumbent slender stems, 20 - 30 cm tall.
Leaves alternate, spatulate-suboblong, obtuse, base shortly spurred, terete, 5 - 9 mm.
Flowering branches ascending, papillose.
Inflorescences lax corymbs, bracts oblanceolate, obtuse, small, pedicels papillose.
Flowers 5-merous, long pedicellate, sepals broadly sessile, slightly unequal, linear, obtuse, 3 - 5 mm, erect, petals basally nearly free, subovate, subobtuse, rather long and narrowly mucronate, reddish-yellow, 5 - 6 mm, suberect.
Cytology : 2n = 54