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Sedum stahlii Solms, Sam. Bot. Gart. Stra^sb. 1900 : 4. 1900
Perennial, much branched, green or tinged with red, very fleshy, finely pubescent, the branches weak, spreading, 2 dm. long or less, or the flowering ones ascending. Leaves opposite or subopposite, sessile, ovoid-oblong, obtuse, nearly round in cross-section, 1-2 cm. long, about half as thick as long, reddish ; cymes terminal, few-forked, the recurved branches 6 cm. long or less; flowers almost sessile; sepals narrowly oblong, obtuse, puberulent, about half as long as the petals ; petals bright-yellow, lanceolate, spreading, about 8 mm. long, acuminate, with a short horn-like appendage below the tip on the outer side ; stamens shorter than the petals ; carpels erect.
Type locality ; Near Tehuacan , Puebla, Mexico. Distribution : Known only from the type locality.
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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
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