Sedum praealtum

A. de Candolle

Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève 11: 445. 1847,.

Treatment appears in FNA Volume 8. Treatment on page 215. Mentioned on page 202.

Subshrubs, glabrous. Stems erect, pendulous, or prostrate, much-branched, not bearing basal rosettes. Leaves alternate, spreading, sessile; blade green tinged with red, not glaucous, elliptic-oblanceolate, laminar, 40–80 × 13–25 mm, base not spurred, not scarious, apex rounded. Flowering shoots (axillary), ascending, usually simple, sometimes branched, 10–50 cm; leaf-blades elliptic-oblanceolate, base not spurred; offsets not formed. Inflorescences elongated paniculate cymes, 50–300+-flowered, 3–25-branched; branches not recurved, forked; bracts similar to leaves, smaller. Pedicels absent or to 1 mm. Flowers (4–) 5 (–6) -merous; sepals erect, usually distinct, green, ovate, lanceolate, or elliptic-oblong, unequal, 1.5–9.6 × 1–3.2 mm, apex obtuse; petals widely spreading, distinct or slightly connate basally, yellow, lanceolate, carinate, ca. 7.5 mm, apex acute or obtuse, mucronate; filaments yellow; anthers yellow; nectar scales yellowish or translucent, subquadrate or reniform. Carpels widely divergent in fruit, distinct, brown. 2n = 68.


Phenology: Flowering late winter.
Habitat: Cliffs
Elevation: 0-100 m

Distribution

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Introduced; Calif., c Mexico, Central America (Guatemala), also in Europe (Italy), Australia

Discussion

The first record of Sedum praealtum cultivated in the United States is from 1930. It is native in the trans-Mexican volcanic belt. It was reported from Ventura County in 1948 and has naturalized in the vicinity of Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz County.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

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... more about "Sedum praealtum"
perigynous +  and hypogynous +
mucronate +, obtuse +, acute +  and rounded +
Hideaki Ohba +
A. de Candolle +
not scarious +
green tinged with red +
4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br /> - 8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> +
lobed +  and toothed +
not glaucous +
elliptic-oblanceolate +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> - 8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br /> +
succulent +
1.3 cm13 mm <br />0.013 m <br /> - 2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br /> +
smaller +
not recurved +
not circumscissile +
whorled +, opposite +  and alternate +
not circumscissile +
Calif. +, c Mexico +, Central America - Guatemala +, also in Europe - Italy +  and Australia +
0-100 m +
connate +  and distinct +
- 4-5 - -6-merous +
spreading;erect +
Cliffs +
3-25-branched +  and 50-300+-flowered +
axillary +  and terminal +
elliptic-oblanceolate +
persistent +  and deciduous +
connate +
translucent +  and yellowish +
reniform +  and subquadrate +
spatulate;reniform;spatulate;reniform;oblong;square;oblong +
semi-inferior +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +, crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
perigynous +  and hypogynous +
connate +  and distinct +
carinate +  and lanceolate +
7.5 cm75 mm <br />0.075 m <br /> - ? +
Flowering late winter. +
- 3-4-5 - -12[-30+]-carpellate +
distinct +  and connate +
Mém. Soc. Phys. Genève +
reticulate-papillose +  and reticulate +
ovoid;ellipsoid +
distinct +
elliptic-oblong +, lanceolate +  and ovate +
unequal +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> - 0.32 cm3.2 mm <br />0.0032 m <br /> +
1 +  and many +
branched +  and simple +
adnate +  and free +
antipetalous +
2 times as many as sepals +
much-branched +
creeping +  and procumbent +
prostrate +, pendulous +  and erect +
succulent +
distinct +
Sedum praealtum +
species +
not conspicuous +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
3 +  and 5 +