SAMIUM Runemark & Greuter, 1981
Subgenus Sedum
Distribution : Greece (E Aegean Islands [Samus]), Turkey (W and S Anatolia); usually on grassy and stony patches on limestone, ± 1000 m.
Description (according to 't Hart in IHSP, 2003) :
Erect usually simple annual herbs to 8 cm.
Leaves oblong-elliptic, subacute, semiterete, with a truncate spur, green or yellowish-green.
Inflorescences small cymes with 2 - 3 cincinni, rarely with 1 - 3 subsidiary axillary cymes with 1 - 3 flowers, bracts 2 per flower.
Flowers 5-merous, sessile or subsessile, sepals broadly sessile, unequal, subacute, petals lanceolate, acute or mucronate, yellow, filaments yellow, anthers red or yellow.
Cytology : 2n = 18
Belonging to the comparium of Ser. Alpestria A.Berger but placed in its own monotypic Ser. Samia 't Hart ('t Hart 1991).
2 subspecies :