Comprehensive Description
provided by North American Flora
Cremnophila nutans Rose,
Sedum nutans Rose, Bull. N. Y. Eot. Card. 3 : 43. 1903.
Caudex 5-7 cm. long, 10-12 mm. in diameter. Leaves 6-8 cm. long, 3^ cm. broad, 1 cm. or more thick, green, not glaucous ; flowering stem 1-2 dm, long, bearing many orbicular to ovate obtuse leaves 1-2 cm. long ; panicle about 1 dm. long, many-flowered ; calyxlobes 4-6 mm. long ; petals bright-yellow, 6 mm. long, acute.
This is a most interesting plant and quite unlike any other known Mexican species of the Crassulaceae. The plants grow on damp mossy nearly perpendicular cliffs and in almost inaccessible places. The flowering stem usually hangs down and the secondary branches stand up, but in herbarium specimens the reverse is suggested ; in cultivated specimens the flowering stems are nearly erect.
Type locality : Mossy cliffs of Tepoxtlan, Morelos, Mexico, altitude 2250 meters.
DiSTRiBtTTlON : Known only from the type locality.
- 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
