SINUATA (Royle ex Edgeworth) S.H.Fu, 1965
Synonyms :
Sedum sinuatum Royle ex Edgeworth (1846) / Sedum linearifolium var. sinuatum (Royle ex Edgeworth) Hamet (1926)
Sedum linearifolium Royle (1839) / Rhodiola linearifolia (Royle) S.H.Fu (1965)
Sedum mucronatum Edgeworth (1846)
Sedum pauciflorum Edgeworth (1846) / Sedum linearifolium var. pauciflorum (Edgeworth) C.B.Clarke (1878)
Sedum linearifolium var. genuinum Hamet (1926)
Sedum garwalicum Fröderström (1942)
Rhodiola fui Borissova (1969)
Subgenus Crassipedes
Distribution : Pakistan (Lahore), Kashmir, lndia (Kumaon), Nepal, Tibet, China (north western Yunnan), rock crevices and scree slopes, 3200 - 4300 m,
Description (by H. Ohba in IHSP, 2003) :
Hermaphrodite, 15 - 30 cm tall.
Rhizomes slender, creeping, 2 - 5 mm in diameter, sparsely branched.
Flowering stems 1 - 5, yellowish-green.
Leaves widely spreading, sessile, narrowly oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, 1.5 - 3.5 x 0.15 - 1 (-2) cm, glabrous, tip acute, base long-attenuate, margin ± lobulate in the upper 1/3 , papillate, lobes 3 (-5), linear, 2 - 10 x 0.8 - 2.2 mm, entire (to sinuolate).
Inflorescences 3- to 13-flowered.
FIowers 8 - 18 mm in diameter, pedicels 3 - 6 mm, densely papillate, calyx 3 - 5.5 mm, glabrous, sepals ovate to triangular-Ianceolate, 2 - 3.3 mm, petals lanceolate to elliptic, white, 7 - 11 (-12) mm, spreading, stamens shorter than the petals, anthers deep red-purple.
Flowering time : July to September.