GRACILE   C.A.Meyer, 1831

Synonyms :

Sedum gracile var. majus  C.A.Meyer (1831)

Sedum gracile var. minus  C.A.Meyer (1831)

Sedum vuralianum  J.Metzger (1993).

Distribution : Turkey, Caucasus (e.g. Azerbaidzhan), northern Iran; stony places in the subalpine and alpine zones.

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

Glabrous tufted perennial herbs with creeping or ascending short rooting branches.

Leaves alternate, densely imbricate, sessile, spurred, linear-subulate to linear-oblong, 5 - 6 mm, subobtuse, bright green.

Inflorescences : Flowering branches usually simple, erect, to 7 (-10) cm tall, densely leafy, inflorescences dense bracteate cymes with 2 - 3 monochasial (rarely forked) branches.

FIowers 5-merous, sessile or subsessile, sepals broadly sessile, basally connate, elliptic or broadly triangular, 1 - 2 mm, subobtuse, petals lanceolate, ± 4 mm, acuminate, white, sometimes suffused with pink or with reddish keels, filaments white, anthers red.

Cytology: 2n = 12.