Phedimus

HYBRIDUS (L.) 't Hart, 1995

Synonyms :

 

Sedum hybridum var. dentatum  hort. (s.a.) / Sedum hybridum  L. (1753) / Anacampseros hybrida  (L.) Haworth (1819) / Aizopsis hybrida  (L.) Grulich

(1984)Sedum hohenackeri  Gandoger (1886)

Sedum vagans  Gandoger (1886)

Sedum sibericum  E.H.L.Krause (1902)

Sedum sibiricum  E.H.L.Krause (1902)

 

Subgenus Aizoon.

 

Distribution : Russia (eastern and central Siberia to the southern and central UraI Mts.), central Asia; stony and gravelly soils, rock crevices, predominantly in mountain steppes, less often in the southern part of the forest zone; naturalized in northern Europe.

 

 

Description (according to IHSP, 2003) :

 

Tufted herbs with a thick and woody rootstock and short decumbent hibernating sterile stems with crowded leaves at the tip.

 

Leaves obovate to oblong-cuneate or spatulate, obtuse, reddish-dentate towards tip, petiolate with a petiole as long as the lamina, lamina 10 - 40 (-50) x 8 - 20 mm.

 

Flowering branches ascending, 10 - 30 cm, with smaller more remote leaves.

 

Inflorescence terminal lax (dense according to Fröderström (1932) and Borissova (1939)) corymbs.

 

Flowers : Sepals basally connate, lanceolate, obtuse, mamillate in the upper part, 6 - 8 mm, petals connate for up to 2 mm, acute, short-mucronate, 6 - 10 x ± 1.5 mm, (golden-)yellow, filaments shorter than the petals, yellow, anthers orange.

 

Probably described from cultivated material. Its status within Subgenus Aizoon is uncertain. Sedum pseudohybridum Voroschilov & Schlothgauer 1984 was described from the Amur-District, and is, to judge from the epithet, similar to this taxon. Its poor description does not allow an interpretation and it is therefore treated as unresolved.

 

Photo Ray Stephenson

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