Sedum laxum var. eastwoodiae

(Britton) H. Ohba

J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas 1: 889. 2007 ,.

Common names: Red Mountain stonecrop
Basionym: Gormania eastwoodiae Britton in N. L. Britton and J. N. Rose, New N. Amer. Crassul., 31. 1903
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 8. Treatment on page 219. Mentioned on page 218.
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Leaf-blades slightly glaucous, spatulate, 10–30 × 10–30 mm, apex rounded. Flowering shoots 4–13 cm; leaf-blades glaucous, suborbiculate, base cordate, not clasping stem. Flowers: sepals 2–4.1 mm, apex acute; petals pink or white, 4–8 mm; anthers red or yellow. 2n = 60.


Phenology: Flowering mid summer.
Habitat: Serpentine
Elevation: 1000-1200 m

Discussion

Of conservation concern.

Variety eastwoodiae is known only from four populations on Red Mountain (Mendocino County) and in Del Norte County.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
perigynous +  and hypogynous +
yellow +  and red +
acute +  and rounded +
Hideaki Ohba +
(Britton) H. Ohba +
cordate +
not scarious +
Gormania eastwoodiae +
0.45 cm4.5 mm <br />0.0045 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
not pruinose +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br />) +
lobed +  and toothed +
not +  and glaucous +
flattened +, subterete +, obovate +, spatulate +  and oblanceolate +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (8 cm80 mm <br />0.08 m <br />) +
succulent +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> (3.3 cm33 mm <br />0.033 m <br />) +
smaller +
not recurved +
2-forked +
not circumscissile +
whorled +, opposite +  and alternate +
Red Mountain stonecrop +
not circumscissile +
3+-branched +  and 12-80-flowered +
1000-1200 m +
pink +, greenish white +  and white +
connate +  and distinct +
spreading;erect +
Serpentine +
axillary +  and terminal +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> (3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br />) +
suborbiculate;spatulate +
persistent +  and deciduous +
connate +
erect +  and spreading +
pink +, yellow +  and white +
oblong +  and reniform +
spatulate;reniform;spatulate;reniform;oblong;square;oblong +
semi-inferior +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +, crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
0.06 cm0.6 mm <br />6.0e-4 m <br /> (0.63 cm6.3 mm <br />0.0063 m <br />) +
perigynous +  and hypogynous +
white +  and pink +
not carinate +, elliptic-oblong +, oblanceolate-oblong +  and lanceolate-oblong +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
Flowering mid summer. +
(3-)4-5(-12)[-30+]-carpellate +
distinct +  and connate +
J. Bot. Res. Inst. Texas +
reticulate-papillose +  and reticulate +
ovoid;ellipsoid +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.26 cm2.6 mm <br />0.0026 m <br />) +
lanceolate +  and ovate +
unequal +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.41 cm4.1 mm <br />0.0041 m <br />) +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (?) +
1 +  and many +
branched +  and simple +
30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br /> (40 cm400 mm <br />0.4 m <br />) +
decumbent +  and erect +
adnate +  and free +
antipetalous +
2 times as many as sepals +
much-branched +
creeping +  and procumbent +
ascending +  and erect +
succulent +
distinct +
Sedum laxum var. eastwoodiae +
Sedum laxum +
variety +
not conspicuous +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
herb +, not +  and cespitose +
3 +  and 5 +