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Sedum lineare Thunb.

Needle stonecrop (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Saxifragales > Crassulaceae > Sedum

Characteristics

Herbs, perennial, mat-forming, glabrous. Stems ascending or decumbent, branched, not bearing rosettes. Leaves in whorls of 3(-4), spreading, sessile; blade green, not glaucous, linear-lanceolate to linear, ± laminar, 7-30 × ca. 2 mm, base short-spurred, not scarious, apex obtuse to subacute. Flowering shoots ascending or pendulous, simple, 10-30 cm; leaf blades linear, base short-spurred; offsets not formed. Inflorescences lax cymes, 10-60+-flowered, (1-)2(-3)-branched; branches spreading to widely ascending, sometimes forked; bracts similar to leaves. Pedicels absent. Flowers 5-merous; sepals spreading, distinct basally, yellowish green, linear-lanceolate, often unequal, 1.5-7(-11) × 2 mm, apex subobtuse to subacute; petals spreading, distinct, yellow, oblong, not carinate, 4-9 mm, apex subobtuse; filaments yellow; anthers dark yellow; nectar scales yellow, square-spatulate. Carpels divergent in fruit, distinct, yellowish green. 2n = 72.
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Herbs perennial. Sterile stems present. Flowering stems erect, 10-20 cm. Leaves 3(or 4)-verticillate, sessile, linear, 2-2.5 × ca. 0.2 cm, base shortly spurred, apex subacute. Cyme 2-or 3-branched, lax, 4-8 cm in diam.; branches 2-forked. Flowers sessile (but dichasial central flower shortly pedicellate), unequally 5-merous. Sepals linear-lanceolate, unequal, 1.5-7 mm, base spurless or sometimes spurred, apex obtuse. Petals yellow, lanceolate, 4-6 mm, base slightly narrowed, apex acute. Stamens 10, shorter than petals. Nectar scales broadly cuneate to subquadrangular, ca. 0.5 × 0.5-0.6 mm. Follicles divergent, 4-5 mm, apex shortly beaked. Seeds small. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Jun-Jul.
A small succulent herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It has sterile stems. The flowering stems are erect and 10-20 cm long. There are 3 or 4 leaves that are 2-3 cm long by 2 mm wide.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.3 - 0.4
Mature height (meter) 0.25 - 0.3
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a subtropical plant. It grows at 1,500 m above sea level in Vietnam. In XTBG Yunnan. In Sichuan.
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Low mountains, rocks on grassy slopes and plains.
Light 6-8
Soil humidity 2-6
Soil texture 2-5
Soil acidity 4-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-9

Usage

The leaves are eaten with oil and salt.
Uses environmental use medicinal oil
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use Burn (unspecified), Poison (unspecified), Preventitive(Famine) (unspecified), Scald (unspecified), Emollients (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings, divisions or seedlings.
Mode cuttings divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days) 15 - 30
Germination temperacture (C°) 10
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -18
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Sedum lineare world distribution map, present in China, Japan, Taiwan, Province of China, United States of America, and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:927354-1
WFO ID wfo-0000437285
COL ID 79ZGB
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Sedum lineare Sedum anhuiense
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