Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Sedum australe Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 41. 1903
Perennial, procumbent, rooting at the joints; branches woody, tuberculately roughened. Leaves numerous, densely crowded, terete, obtuse, 6-7 mm. long, glabrous; inflorescence a short compact cyme ; calyx-lobes leaf-like, half as long as the petals ; petals reddish-yellow, 7 mm. long, mucronate on the back below the apex ; carpels widely spreading when mature.
Type locality : Volcano of Santa Maria, Guatemala. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, George Valentine Nash, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose, Per Axel Rydber. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
