QUEVAE Hamet, 1914

Synonyms:

Sedum arsenii  Fröderström

Sedum falconis  Brandegee (1919)

Type : Arsène 193, Puebla, Mexico.

Subgenus Sedum

Distribution: Mexico (Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt :Guerrero, Mexico, Morelos, Puebla, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí, Tlaxcala); 1900 – 2400 m

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

Glabrous perennial subshrubs with tuberous roots and procubent, much-branched, finely papillose stems with flaking bark, 20 – 40 cm tall.

Leaves alternate, oblanceolate to elliptic-oblanceolate, spatulate-oblong or subobovate, obtuse, spurred, sometimes finely papillose, 5 – 38 x 3 – 7 mm.

Flowering branches erect, papillose, 7 – 40 cm.

Inflorescences few-flowered panicles or corymbs, bracts subobovate, papillose, pedicels to 3 mm.

Flowers  5-merous, subsessile, sepals basally free, broadly spurred, almost equal, oblong, obtuse, papillose, green, 2 – 7 x 0,8 – 2,4 mm erect, petals slightly connate, triangular-oblong to ovate, acute, shortly mucronate, papillose along the mid-rib, white, 5 – 7 mm, reflexed, anthers red.

Cytology: 2n = 40, 42.