VIVIPARUM  (Maximowicz) H.Ohba, 1977

Synonyms :

Sedum viviparum  Maximowicz (1883) / Sedum telephium ssp. viviparum (Maximowicz) Fröderström (1930)

Section Hylotelephium

Distribution : Russia (eastern Siberia), China (Manchuria), North Korea.

Description (according to H.Ohba in IHSP, 2003) :

Flowering stems erect, 15 - 30 cm.

Leaves in whorls of 3 or 4 or sometimes opposite, shortly petiolate, lanceolate to oblong-ovate, usually shorter than the internodes, 3 - 4 x 1.2 - 1.5 cm, dark green above, tip obtuse or rounded, base rounded to cuneate, margins obtusely shaIlowly serrate.

Inflorescences terminal, dense, with short peduncle, sometimes proliferating.

Flowers small, sepals triangular-ovate, ± 2 mm, petals 3 - 3.5 mm, elliptic to narrowly oblong, whitish or greenish, stamens as long as the petals, anthers pale yellow.

Photos Ray Stephenson