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Sedum woodii Britton, sp. nov
Perennial by rootstocks or offsets, glabrous ; flowering stems ridged, rather stout, about 1 dm. high. Basal leaves and those of rosettes very broadly spatulate, obtuse, 1.5 cm. long or less, 6-10 mm. wide, narrowed to a. sessile base, those of the flowering stems alternate, narrowly spatulate or oblanceolate, 1 cm. long or less ; cyme-branches 2-forked, 5-8 cm. long; flowers very nearly sessile; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acutish; petals yellow, lanceolate, acuminate, about 8 mm. long ; carpels spreading, acuminate, tipped by subulate
styles.
Oregon City, Oregon, A. Wood, 1866.
- 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
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Sedum anomalum Britton
Gormania anomala Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 30. 1903.
Stems decumbent or ascending, low; plant light-green, slightly pinkish-pruinose. Leaves of rosettes spatulate, 2 cm. long or less, apiculate, their margins slightly papillose ; those of flowering stems oblong to oblanceolate, obtuse, sessile, 7-10 mm. long ; C3anes about 2.5 cm. broad; flowers very nearly sessile; calyx-lobes lanceolate, acutish, scarcely pruinose ; petals lanceolate, acuminate, bright-yellow, 6-7 mm. long, 2 mm. wide, spreading, some of them often united at the very base ; carpels erect, subulatetipped.
Type locality : San Luis Obispo County, California. Distribution : Southwestern California.
- 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
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Sedum californicum Britton, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3: 44. 1903
Rootstock rather stout, nearly horizontal. Stems erect, stout, 1,5-2 dm. high; basal leaves and those of rosettes spatulate, obtuse, 1-3 cm. long, 8-10 mm. wide, the flabellately arranged veins uniting in an intramarginal nerve; stem-leaves linear-oblong to oblongspatulate, acute to acutish, about 1 cm. long; cyme large, 6-10 cm. broad, its branches stout, ascending or somewhat recurved, mostly once or twice forked ; flowers sessile or the lower ones on stout pedicels 3 mm. long or less ; sepals ovate, acutish or obtuse, about 2 mm. long, one-fourth to one-third as long as the narrowly lanceolate, white, long-acuminate petals ; carpels broad, divergent, finely reticulated, the subulate tips ascending.
Type locality : North side of Mount Shasta, Siskiyou County, CaUfornia, 1,600-3,000 m.
altitude.
Distribution : Northern California.
- 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