Sedum

ULRICAE Fröd. 1929

Type : Licent 4373, Gansu, China.

 

Distribution : E Tibet, China (S Gansu, SE Qinghai); forests, mountain summits, gravelly sloes, 3000 – 4500 m.

 

 

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

 

Annual or biennial herbs with erect stems, simple or branched from the base, 3 – 6 cm tall.

 

Leaves alternate, broadly linear to suboblong, subacute, 4.5 – 7 mm, shortly spurred.

 

Flowers 5-merous with 5 stamens, sepals basally free, shortly spurred, linear to oblanceolate, subacute, 4 – 4.5 mm, petals lanceolate, subobtuse, white or yellowish, 3.6 – 4 mm, nectar scales narrowly linear, slightly emarginate, styles very short, fruit erect or subdivergent, few-seeded, seed large, probably reticulate-papillose.

 

According to Fröderström (1932: 116) merely a small form of S. perrotii.

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