Sedum fischeri

The follicles of specimens from Xizang sometimes have up to 14 seeds.

Annual herb. Root slender, fibrous. Stems 1.8-5 cm high, erect, glabrous, branched. Leaves alternate, sessile, oblong, oblanceolate, obtuse, entire, truncate at the base, 3-6 x 1-1.5 mm. Cymes, 1-3-flowered, terminal. Flowers pentamerous, glabrous, pedicel 1-2 mm. Sepals 2-4 x 0.5-1.5 mm, oblong, acute, glabrous. Petals free, 3-5 x 1-1.5 mm, oblong, acuminate, glabrous, white. Stamens 5, in one whorl, 2-4 mm long. Nectar scales oblong, 0.8-1 x 0.15-0.2 mm. Carpels 5, connate at the base, 2-3 x 0.5-1 mm, style short, stigma capitate. Follicles 5, 3-4 x 1-1.5 mm. Seeds 3-10 per fruit, small, brown, ellipsoid, 0.5-1 x 0.2-0.3 mm.

Herbs annual, glabrous. Stems branched from base, ascending, 1-2.5(-4) cm. Leaf blade narrowly oblong, 3-6 × 1-2 mm, base obtusely spurred, apex obtuse. Cyme corymbiform, few flowered; bracts narrowly oblong. Flowers shortly pedicellate, 5-merous. Sepals subovate, 3-4 mm, base spurless, apex obtuse. Petals free, yellow, suboblong, 3-4 mm, apex obtuse. Stamens 5, ca. 3 mm. Nectar scales narrowly linear-spatulate, 0.8-1.1 mm, apex obtuse. Carpels ovoid-oblong, ca. 4.2 mm, base subconnate, apex abruptly tapered; ovules 12-14. Styles ca. 1 mm. Follicles 6-8(-14)-seeded. Seeds oblong-ovoid, ca. 0.7 mm, minutely mammillate. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Aug-Sep.

Distribution: Kashmir, N.W.India, Sikkim, Bhutan, China (Xizang, Qinghai).

E Qinghai (Xinghai Xian), S Xizang [Bhutan, NW India, Sikkim].

Fl.Per.: July-September.

A plant of high altitude, grows between 4500-5000 m along streams.

Meadows and rock crevices on slopes; 3600-5600 m.