Sedum

CORREPTUM Fröderström, 1931

Type : Handel-Mazzetti 2674, Sichuan, China.

 

Distribution : China (Sichuan, Yunnan), Bhutan; rocky slopes, 3500 – 4300 m.

 

 

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

 

Perennial herbs, shoots from a short woody base, numerous, densely tufted, erect, sometimes densely papillate, 0.5 – 1 cm tall.

 

Leaves alternate, densely imbricate, pseudopetiolate, spatulate to narrowly ovate or obovate, obtuse, densely mamillate or papillate, 2 – 6 mm.

 

Flowering branches arising from the base, erect or ascending, slender, simple, smooth, ca 2.5 cm long.

 

Inflorescences 1-flowered or to 5-flowered racemes, bracts leaf-like, pedicels 0.6 – 1.5 mm.

 

Flowers 5-merous, with only 5 stamens, sepals broadly sessile, basally connate, semi-ovate, obtuse, 1.5 mm, petals oblong, narrowing towards the base, obtuse, greenish, ca 3 mm, anthers red, nectar scales very long, narrowly linear-spatulate, obtuse, ca 1.5 mm, fruit erect, 2-seeded, seed suboblong, probably costate.

 

 

Included in Sect. Filipes (Fröderström) S.H.Fu and considered to be related to S. elatinoides and S. filipes (Fu & Fu 1984).

 

Ohba (1977) wrote : "Sedum correptum is apparently related to S. elatinoides Franch., but it differs from the latter in having 1) the dwarf, close set growing habit, 2) very short stems, 3) densely arranged, spatulate-narrowly obovate leaves, 4) elliptic petals, 5) haplostemonous stamens alternate with the petals, and 6) seeds with an elongate apex."

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