ADOLPHI   Hamet, 1912

Synonym : Sedum nussbaumerianum  Bitter (1924)

Distribution :  Mexico (Veracruz)

Description (by 't Hart & Bleij in IHSP, 2003) :

Grlabrous perennial subshrubs with much branched spreading, sprawling or ascending stems, 10 – 30 cm.

Leaves imbricate, alternate, broadly lanceolate to obovate, 12 – 30 mm, acute to subacute, spurred, obscurely carinate, subterete, very fleshy.

Inflorescences corymbose, pedicels 6 – 10 mm.

Flowers  5-merous, sepals broadly sessile, triangular-semiorbicular, apiculate, ± 1.5 x 1 mm, petals basally connate, oblong, tapering above, subobtuse, narrowly mucronate, white, ± 7.5 mm.

Cytology : 2n=128

Sedum adolphi and S. 'Golden Glow'

As the photos below show : S. adolphi is somewhat variable.