Common Name: STONECROP FAMILY Habit: Annual to shrub [+- tree-like or climbing], fleshy. Leaf: generally simple, alternate or opposite (whorled), in dense to open, basal (or terminal) rosettes, or basal and cauline (not in rosettes), reduced on distal stem or not, often +- red. Inflorescence: generally a cyme, panicle-like, generally bracted. Flower: generally bisexual; sepals generally 3--5, generally +- free; petals generally 3--5, +- free or fused; stamens >> to = sepals, epipetalous or not; pistils generally 3--5(8), simple, fused at base or not, ovary 1-chambered, placenta 1, parietal, ovules 1--many, style 1 per pistil. Fruit: follicles, generally 3--5. Seed: 1--many, small. Genera In Family: +- 33 genera, +- 1400 species: +- worldwide, especially dry temperate; many cultivated for ornament. Note: Water-stressed plants often +- red. Consistent terminology regarding leaves, bracts difficult; in Aeonium and Dudleya, structures in rosettes are leaves, those on peduncles are bracts, and those subtending flowers are flower bracts; thus in taxa where the inflorescence is terminal, rosette leaves may "become" bracts as stem rapidly elongates to form an inflorescence. In Sedum structures below the inflorescence are interpreted as stems and leaves, not peduncles and bracts. Seed numbers given per follicle. SCIED: Scientific Editor: Bruce G. Baldwin, Thomas J. Rosatti. eFlora Treatment Author: Steve Boyd, except as noted Scientific Editor: Bruce G. Baldwin, Thomas J. Rosatti.
Habit: Annual, erect, glabrous, branches 0 or near base. Leaf: early-deciduous, sessile, 0.4--0.7 cm, oblong-elliptic to ovoid (obovoid), basal opposite, free, not fused around stem, cauline alternate, entire, tip rounded to obtuse. Inflorescence: terminal, flowers 1--2+ in 0--3-branched cyme, subsessile. Flower: sepals 5; petals 5, +- fused at base, linear to narrow-ovate, pale to bright or green-yellow, midrib often +- red; stamens 5 or 10, anthers 0.2--0.4 mm, yellow or red-brown; pistils 5, oblong, bases rounded, styles 0.2--1.2 mm, erect or recurved, stigmas +- 0.1 mm diam. Fruit: +- indehiscent, utricle-like, erect to outcurved, glabrous or glandular. Seed: 1, 0.7--2 mm, club-like, brown. Etymology: (Latin: diminutive of Sedum) Note:Parvisedum is a superfluous name for Sedella. eFlora Treatment Author: Steve Boyd Reference: Moran 1997 Haseltonia 5:53--60 Unabridged Reference: Eggli 1992 Bradleya 10:83
Sedella pumila (Benth.) Britton & Rose
NATIVE Habit: Plant (1)2--17 cm, branches generally several (0), erect or spreading, at same level as main axis. Leaf: (2)4--7 mm, 1--3 mm wide. Flower: calyx base tapered to pedicel, sepals 0.5--0.8 mm, 0.3--0.4 mm wide; petals spreading in flower, erect in fruit, (2)2.5--5 mm, 0.3--1.2 mm wide, elliptic to lanceolate, acute, pale to bright yellow; stamens 10, anthers 0.2--0.4 mm, yellow or red-brown; pistils 1--2 mm, stipitate-glandular near suture and on angles, often with fringed row of papillae on suture, styles erect, or, when short, often recurved, 0.3--1.2 mm. Fruit: 1.2--2.5 mm, erect to ascending (spreading), glabrous to glandular adaxially. Seed: 0.8--1.5 mm. Chromosomes: n=9. Ecology: Open, often wet sites, rock outcrops, clay soils, vernal pools; Elevation: 30--1500 m. Bioregional Distribution: se NCoRO, NCoRI, CaRF, SNF, c SNH, GV, SCoRI; Distribution Outside California: OR. Flowering Time: Mar--May Synonyms: Parvisedum congdonii (Eastw.) R.T. Clausen; Parvisedum pumilum (Benth.) R.T. Clausen; Sedella congdonii (Eastw.) Britton & Rose; Sedum congdonii Eastw. Jepson eFlora Author: Steve Boyd Reference: Moran 1997 Haseltonia 5:53--60 Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Sedella pentandra Next taxon: Sedum
Citation for this treatment: Steve Boyd 2012, Sedella pumila, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=43953, accessed on April 16, 2024.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2024, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on April 16, 2024.
Geographic subdivisions for Sedella pumila:
se NCoRO, NCoRI, CaRF, SNF, c SNH, GV, SCoRI
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