Sedum porphyreum

Sedum porphyreum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Saxifragales
Family:	Crassulaceae
Genus:	Sedum
Species:	S. porphyreum
Binomial name
	Sedum porphyreum; Kotschy

Sedum porphyreum, the purple stonecrop, is a small, annual, succulent herb, 3–6 cm high, with hairless, reddish-green stems. Leaves succulent, simple, entire, spirally arranged, hairless, stalkless, elliptical to oblong, 3–15 x 2–8 mm, green or green-reddish. Flowers actinomorphic, petals white with purplish keel. Flowers Mars to May. Fruit a follicle.^[1]

Habitat[]

Rock crevices and rock clefts with soil, rocky and stony hillsides on limestone formations at 0–600 m altitude.

Distribution[]

A Cyprus endemic, it has been recorded in most parts of Cyprus at low elevations, but it is especially common in Akamas, (baths of Aphrodite, Karavopetres, Erimidhes, Pano Arodes, Neonkhorio etc.) and in Kyrenia District.

References[]

^ The Endemic Plants of Cyprus, Texts: Takis Ch. Tsintides, Photographs: Laizos Kourtellarides, Cyprus Association of Professional Foresters, Bank of Cyprus Group, Nicosia 1998, ISBN 9963-42-067-2

External links[]

http://www.treknature.com/gallery/photo257160.htm
http://www.treknature.com/gallery/photo251363.htm
http://floraofcyprus.zzl.org/images/sedum porphyreum/DSC04488.JPG
http://www.moa.gov.cy/moa/fd/fd.nsf/0/E35E238470AE526AC22577AB0026BECE/$file/Sedum porphyreum-1.jpg?OpenElement
http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2489439

[1] The Endemic Plants of Cyprus, Texts: Takis Ch. Tsintides, Photographs: Laizos Kourtellarides, Cyprus Association of Professional Foresters, Bank of Cyprus Group, Nicosia 1998, ISBN 9963-42-067-2

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