Sedum

NANSHANCHUNENSE S.S. Ying, 2021

Distribution : Taiwan (Nanshanchun, Yilan County), endemic ; on limestone cliffs, ca 1155 m asl.

 

 

Description :

 

Perennial, creeping, white hairy herbs. 

 

Roots slender, fibrous.

 

Stem creeping, much branched, purplish, branches spreading, usually rooting at nodes, purplish.

 

Leaves opposite, ovate to rounded, 8-13 x 5-7 mm, apex obtuse, base obtuse to rounded, fleshy, margins ciliate, lustrous green and scattered with white spots, shortly hairy on both surfaces, petioles 3-5 mm long.

 

Flowers 5-merous, solitary, terminal or in axil of uppermost leaf, white, pedicels 8-15 mm long.

 

Sepals linear, up to 3.8 x 2 mm, apex acuminte to obtuse, hairy outside.

 

Petals 4-7 x 3-3.5 mm oblong ot ovate-oblong, apex obtuse, glabrous on both surfaces.

 

Flowering and fruiting May – July.

 

 

Published in New Taxa & New Names, vol. 4, 2021.

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