PACENSE Meyrán, 2003

Distribution : Mexico (Guanajuato)

Description :

Stems decumbent or pendent, 8 – 40 cm long, with aerial roots, branching at the base or higher up the stem.

Leaves sessile, oblanceolate, oblong to obovate, obtuse, up to 11 mm long, 3.5 – 5 mm wide and 2 mm thick, flat or slightly concave ventrally, bright green, pruinose, reddish at apex.

Inflorescences terminal, up to 3 – 4.5 cm long, with 2 – 8 flowers, pedicels 1 – 3 mm long.

Flowers : Sepals almost equal, pale green, pruinose, petals 4 – 5 mm long, 1.5 – 2 mm wide, united at base for 0.5 mm, yellow, keel greenish, filaments and anthers yellow.

Cytology : n = 34

Note :

S. pacense is identical with a plant collected by Alfred Lau in 1978 in the adjacent state of Queretaro > Sedum spec. Lau 081.

First published in Cactáceas y Suculentas Mexicanas 48 (2) : 52-55. 2003.