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Sedum praealtum A.DC.

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Sedum praealtum A.DC.
Sedum praealtum A.DC.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Sedum praealtum A.DC.
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Sedum praealtum

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praealtum

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Sedum praealtum A.DC.

Glabrous, much-branched subshrub with widespreading or sprawling, often twisted or curved, stems to c. 50 cm long and 1 cm diam. Lvs alternate, sessile, mainly aggregated and often imbricate towards shoot apices but not in terminal rosettes, mostly 2.5-6 × 1-2 cm and 3-5 mm thick, oblanceolate, obovate, narrowly ellipsoid-obovoid, or ellipsoid-spathulate, convex or flattened above and below, shining green; margins entire, often reddish, especially towards the obtuse, subacute or rounded apex. Infl. a terminal ± pyramidal panicle with a number of long, erect to spreading branches, usually 6-15 cm high and 5- c. 14 cm across, with lower bracts leaflike. Fls rather numerous, subsessile or with pedicels to 2 mm long, secund. Sepals equal, 2-3 mm long, triangular-ovate. Petals 5, patent, 6.5-8.5 × c. 2 mm, narrowly triangular, yellow, acute. Stamens 3-5 mm long, yellow. Carpels and styles yellow or greenish yellow. Scales ± rectangular, wider than long. Follicles yellowish, ± parallel. Mature seed not seen.

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Sedum praealtum A.DC.
Sedum praealtum A.DC.

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Sedum praealtum A.DC.
New Zealand
Sedum praealtum A.DC.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Sedum praealtum A.DC.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Sedum praealtum A.DC.
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Sedum praealtum A.DC.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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6f5ba0ea-952f-405d-9928-7f4ca512ce06
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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
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