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Sedum microstachyum

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Sedum microstachyum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
(unranked):
Angiosperms
(unranked):
Eudicots
(unranked):
Core eudicots
Order:
Saxifragales
Family:
Crassulaceae
Genus:
Sedum
Species:
S. microstachyum
Binomial name
Sedum microstachyum

Sedum microstachyum, the small-spiked stonecrop, is an erect, succulent, monocarpic herb, with an unbranched stem up to 40 cm high. Leaves succulent, simple, entire, glandular, hairy, reddish in sunny positions, sessile, the basal crowded in rosettes, spathulate-linear 3-7 x 0.5-1.5 cm, the higher smaller, spirally arranged. Flowers actinomorphic, small, reddish or greenish, in a cylindrical panicle, Flowers from June to September. Fruit a many-seeded follicle.[1]

Habitat

Rock crevices on igneous formations at 1500–1900 m altitude.

Distribution

Endemic to Cyprus, confined to the Troödos forest where it is fairly common: Chromion, Khionistra, Loumata, Aeton and Troödos Square.

References

  1. ^ The Endemic Plants of Cyprus, Texts: Takis Ch. Tsintides, Photographs: Laizos Kourtellarides, Cyprus Association of Professional Foresters, Bank of Cyprus Group, Nicosia 1998, ISBN 9963-42-067-2
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