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Rhodiola subopposita (Maxim.) Jacobsen

Description

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Plants greenish. Flowering stems numerous, slender, flexuose, more than 30 cm. Stem leaves subopposite or alternate, divergent, shortly petiolate to subsessile; leaf blade broadly elliptic to ovate, ca. 2 × 1 cm, margin irregularly crenulate, apex obtuse. Inflorescences cymes, ca. 10 mm in diam., to 4 cm in fruit, many flowered, bracteate. Flowers unisexual, unequally 5-merous, ca. 7 mm in diam., equaling pedicel. Sepals oblong. Petals yellow, oblong. Stamens 10, slightly longer than petals. Nectar scales subquadrangular, apex emarginate. Carpels of male flowers rudimentary, ovoid, small. Styles short, apiculate. Follicles ca. 6 mm, apical beak horizontally spreading, short. Seeds winged.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of China Vol. 8: 257 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Distribution

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C Gansu (Tianzhu Zhang Zu Zizhixian), NE Qinghai.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of China Vol. 8: 257 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Habitat

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* Rocks in alpine areas; 3800-4100 m.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of China Vol. 8: 257 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org
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Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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Synonym

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Sedum suboppositum Maximowicz, Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, Sér. 3, 29: 132. 1883.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
bibliographic citation
Flora of China Vol. 8: 257 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of China @ eFloras.org
editor
Wu Zhengyi, Peter H. Raven & Hong Deyuan
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eFloras.org
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eFloras