Difference between revisions of "Sedum laxum"

(Britton) A. Berger in H. G. A. Engler et al.

in H. G. A. Engler et al., Nat. Pflanzenfam. ed. 2, 18a: 451. 1930,.

Basionym: Gormania laxa Britton
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 8. Treatment on page 218. Mentioned on page 201, 202, 217.
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, cespitose or not, glabrous. <b>Stems</b> root-stocks, ascending, much-branched, bearing rosettes. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, erect to spreading, sessile; blade green, glaucous or not, not pruinose, oblanceolate, spatulate, or obovate, subterete or somewhat flattened, 10–50 × (4.5–)6–33 mm, base not spurred, not scarious, apex truncate to rounded or obtuse, emarginate or barely notched. <b>Flowering</b> shoots erect or decumbent, simple or branched, 4–30(–40) cm; leaf blades oblanceolate, spatulate, obovate, or suborbiculate, base not spurred; offsets not formed. <b>Inflorescences</b> elongate, paniculate cymes, 12–80-flowered, monochasially 3+-branched; branches not recurved, 2-forked; bracts similar to leaves, smaller. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.6–6.3 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous; sepals erect, (closely appressed to corolla tube), slightly connate basally, pale green, ovate or lanceolate, equal, (2–)2.6–5.1 × 2 mm, apex acute or subacute, (rarely obtuse in var. flavidum); petals basally erect, divergent in distal 1/2, connate basally, pink, pinkish white, or white to yellowish white, lanceolate-oblong, oblanceolate-oblong, or elliptic-oblong, not carinate, 4–11 mm, apex obtuse, shortly mucronate or aristate; filaments white, greenish white, or pink; anthers red, reddish purple, red-brown, or yellow; nectar scales white, yellow, or pink, reniform or transversely oblong. <b>Carpels</b> erect in fruit, distinct, brown.</span><!--
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Herbs,</b> perennial, cespitose or not, glabrous. <b>Stems</b> root-stocks, ascending, much-branched, bearing rosettes. <b>Leaves</b> alternate, erect to spreading, sessile; blade green, glaucous or not, not pruinose, oblanceolate, spatulate, or obovate, subterete or somewhat flattened, 10–50 × (4.5–)6–33 mm, base not spurred, not scarious, apex truncate to rounded or obtuse, emarginate or barely notched. <b>Flowering</b> shoots erect or decumbent, simple or branched, 4–30(–40) cm; leaf blades oblanceolate, spatulate, obovate, or suborbiculate, base not spurred; offsets not formed. <b>Inflorescences</b> elongate, paniculate cymes, 12–80-flowered, monochasially 3+-branched; branches not recurved, 2-forked; bracts similar to leaves, smaller. <b>Pedicels</b> 0.6–6.3 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 5-merous; sepals erect, (closely appressed to corolla tube), slightly connate basally, pale green, ovate or lanceolate, equal, (2–)2.6–5.1 × 2 mm, apex acute or subacute, (rarely obtuse in <i></i>var.<i> flavidum</i>); petals basally erect, divergent in distal 1/2, connate basally, pink, pinkish white, or white to yellowish white, lanceolate-oblong, oblanceolate-oblong, or elliptic-oblong, not carinate, 4–11 mm, apex obtuse, shortly mucronate or aristate; filaments white, greenish white, or pink; anthers red, reddish purple, red-brown, or yellow; nectar scales white, yellow, or pink, reniform or transversely oblong. <b>Carpels</b> erect in fruit, distinct, brown.</span><!--
  
 
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Revision as of 19:06, 18 September 2019

Herbs, perennial, cespitose or not, glabrous. Stems root-stocks, ascending, much-branched, bearing rosettes. Leaves alternate, erect to spreading, sessile; blade green, glaucous or not, not pruinose, oblanceolate, spatulate, or obovate, subterete or somewhat flattened, 10–50 × (4.5–)6–33 mm, base not spurred, not scarious, apex truncate to rounded or obtuse, emarginate or barely notched. Flowering shoots erect or decumbent, simple or branched, 4–30(–40) cm; leaf blades oblanceolate, spatulate, obovate, or suborbiculate, base not spurred; offsets not formed. Inflorescences elongate, paniculate cymes, 12–80-flowered, monochasially 3+-branched; branches not recurved, 2-forked; bracts similar to leaves, smaller. Pedicels 0.6–6.3 mm. Flowers 5-merous; sepals erect, (closely appressed to corolla tube), slightly connate basally, pale green, ovate or lanceolate, equal, (2–)2.6–5.1 × 2 mm, apex acute or subacute, (rarely obtuse in var. flavidum); petals basally erect, divergent in distal 1/2, connate basally, pink, pinkish white, or white to yellowish white, lanceolate-oblong, oblanceolate-oblong, or elliptic-oblong, not carinate, 4–11 mm, apex obtuse, shortly mucronate or aristate; filaments white, greenish white, or pink; anthers red, reddish purple, red-brown, or yellow; nectar scales white, yellow, or pink, reniform or transversely oblong. Carpels erect in fruit, distinct, brown.

Discussion

Varieties 5 (5 in the flora).

Sedum laxum is unusual in forming offsets in axils of rosette leaves rather than on a rootstock or creeping stem.

Selected References

None.

Key

1 Flowering shoot leaf bases clasping stems. Sedum laxum var. heckneri
1 Flowering shoot leaf bases not clasping stems > 2
2 Petals pale yellow or white with pink mid- veins; sepal apices obtuse. Sedum laxum var. flavidum
2 Petals pink or white; sepal apices acute > 3
3 Flowering shoot leaf blades suborbiculate. Sedum laxum var. eastwoodiae
3 Flowering shoot leaf blades spatulate to oblanceolate > 4
4 Leaf blades 9-17 mm wide Sedum laxum var. laxum
4 Leaf blades 17-33 mm wide. Sedum laxum var. latifolium