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Wednesday 30 September 2015

Small-spiked stonecrop - Sedum microstachyum (Kotschy) Boiss. - Σέδον το µικροστάχυον - Endemic to Cyprus

See also - Λίστα Ενδημικών Φυτών της Κύπρου - List of Endemics plants of Cyprus


Endemic to Cyprus

Red Data Book category

Sedum microstachyum is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae. It is referred to by the common name small-spiked stonecrop. It is an erect, succulent, monocarpic herb, with an unbranched stem up to 40 cm high. Leaves succulent, simple, entire, glandular, hairy, reddish in sunny positions, sessile, the basal crowded in rosettes, spathulate-linear 3-7 x 0.5-1.5 cm, the higher smaller, spirally arranged. Flowers actinomorphic, small, reddish or greenish, in a cylindrical panicle, Flowers from June to September. Fruit a many-seeded follicle.

Habitat
Rock crevices on igneous formations at 1500–1900 m altitude.

Distribution
Endemic to Cyprus, confined to the Troödos forest where it is fairly common: Chromion, Khionistra, Loumata, Aeton and Troödos Square. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Photos Troodos 12/6/2013  by George Konstantinou





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