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Sedum decumbens R.T.Clausen

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R.T.Clausen
R.T.Clausen
1975
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Sedum decumbens R.T.Clausen
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Sedum decumbens

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decumbens

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Sedum decumbens R.T.Clausen

Glabrous, much-branched, perennial herb often forming dense low mounds up to c. 1 m across; stems creeping or sprawling, often rooting at nodes, decumbent, ± woody at base. Lvs alternate, sessile or subsessile, mainly situated towards the apices with the distal ones forming terminal rosettes, usually 1.5-3.3 × 1-2.7 cm and 1-3 mm thick, elliptic, broad-elliptic, elliptic- obovate, or suborbicular, flat, entire, shining green, sometimes with reddish brown flush on upper side and on margins towards the rounded apex. Infl. a terminal, rather compact corymbose panicle with short erect to spreading branches, usually 4-6 cm high and 2- c. 6 cm across; bracts small and caducous, the lowest pair leaflike. Fls c. 15-50, subsessile or with short pedicels, secund. Sepals somewhat unequal, 2.5-4.3 mm long, elliptic or elliptic-oblong. Petals 5, patent, 4-6 × 2-3 mm, triangular, lanceolate or ovate, yellow, acute. Stamens 3-4.5 mm long, yellow. Carpels and styles yellow. Scales ± rectangular, often emarginate. Follicles not seen.

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Sedum decumbens R.T.Clausen
Sedum decumbens R.T.Clausen
Sedum decumbens R.T.Clausen
Sedum decumbens R.T.Clausen

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Sedum decumbens R.T.Clausen
New Zealand
Wellington Land District

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a2c233a8-c3d5-4480-8e47-99743314896a
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1 January 2000
29 May 2009
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