CLAVIFOLIUM Rose, 1911
Distribution : Central Mexico, alpine vegetation, ± 3700 m.
Description (according to IHSP, 2003) :
Perennial herbs with branched rhizomes with scale-like leaves and terminal caespitose rosette.
Leaves alternate, spatulate or oblanceolate, petiolate, rounded, broadened at the base and amplexicaul, 4.7 – 34 x 0.9 – 5 mm; flowering branches ascending, to 14 cm.
Inflorescences cymes with monochasial branches, pedicels ± 3.5 mm.
Flowers 5-merous ; sepals basally free, shortly spurred, unequal, clavate-oblanceolate or oblong, obtuse, green speckled with red, 2.4 – 7 x 1.1 – 3 mm, petals free, ovate, mucronate, greenish streaked with red, ± 3 mm, first spreading, then recurved, anthers yellow or orange.
Cytology : 2n = 68 – 76.
Note :
S. clavifolium has been recollected some years ago in the National Park “Pico de Tancítaro" :
"Sedum calvifolium Rose (Crassulaceae), Nuevo registro para la flora de Michoacán, México",
by Ignacio García Ruiz.