CONCARPUM Fröderström, 1935

Synonym : Sedum concarpum var. hupehense  S.H. Fu (1965) (provisionally placed here)

Distribution : China (SW Hubei, SW Yunnan); alpine meadows, 2800-3400 m.

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

Perennial herbs with decumbent and rooting densely leafy shoots, 3 – 5 cm long.

Leaves suborbicular or obovate, obtuse or rounded, long petiolate, mamillate, 5 – 25 mm.

Flowering branches to 9 cm tall.

Inflorescences dense corymbs, partly covered by the uppermost leaves, bracts leaf-like.

Flowers 5-merous, sepals broadly sessile, oblanceolate, subobtuse, mamillate at the tip, ± 5 mm, petals free at the base, lanceolate, obtuse, yellow, 7 – 8 mm, styles long, nectar scales linear-subspatulate, rounded, thick, reddish, fruits erect, connate for 3 mm, seeds subovoid, reticulate.