浙景天 Sedum tosaense subsp. sinense

  • Scientific Name: Sedum tosaense subsp. sinense K.T.Fu & G.Y.Rao
  • Ref: Acta Bot. Boreal.-Occid. Sin. 8(2):121. 1988
  • Chinese Common Name: 浙景天 Zhè jǐngtiān, 中华景天 Zhōnghuá jǐngtiān
  • Family: Crassulaceae
  • Genus: Sedum
  • Distribution: N Zhejiang (Lin’an Xian)
  • Photo: 04/08/2007, Qingliang Peak, Zhejiang
Herbs perennial. Sterile shoots present; leaves with blade obovate-spatulate, base cuneate. Flowering stems prostrate when young, later erect, weak, to 15 cm. Leaf blade linear-spatulate, 1.2-2 × 0.5-1 cm, tapered toward base, apex rounded and retuse. Cyme sometimes several branched, many flowered; bracts resembling stem leaves. Flowers unequally 5-merous. Sepals unequal, base spurred. Petals yellow, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, apex mucronate. Carpels compressed, divergent at maturity, base connate. Styles short. Follicles many seeded. Seeds mammillate. Fl. May-Jul. (Flora of China)

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