SEMPERVIVUM ssp. LIBANOTICA   (Labillardière) Eggli, 1988

Synonyms :

Cotyledon libanotica  Labillardière (1809) / Umbilieus libanoticus  (Labillardière) DC (1828) / Rosularia sempervivum var. libanotica  (Labillardière) Thiébaut (1940) / Rosularia libanotica  (Labillardière) Muirhead (1972)

Umbilicus libanoticus var. pauciflorus  Boissier (1888)

Rosularia parvifolia  Fröderström & Samuelson ex Rechinger (1951)

Rosularia libanotica var. pubescens  Fröderström ex Samuelsson (1960

Rosularia kesrouanensis  Mouterde (1970)

Distribution : Southern Turkey, western Syria, Lebanon, Western Jordania, Israel; to 2000m.

Description (according to U. Eggli in IHSP, 2003) :

Rosette flattish or with ± semierect leaves, 2.5 - 9 cm in diameter, offsets sessile or 2 - 3 cm stalked.

Leaves oblong-truncate to spatulate with round or emarginate apex, fresh green, never glaucous, 2 - 4 cm, densely glandular-hairy and with resinous scent, margin glandular or slightly denticulate.

Inflorescences lateral, 10 - 20 cm.

Flowers 7 - 10 mm, funnel-shaped and opening ± widely, petals pale pink with slightly darker venation.

Cytology : 2n = 18

Reminiscent of ssp. pestalorzae, but readily distinguished by its larger and more widely opening flowers. R. kesrouanensis is tentatively included here as a synonym; it is only known from the type and seems to represent a diminutive form of this taxon.