WorldFloraDB - Sempervivum

Characteristics

Herbs, perennial, monocarpic, not viviparous, 1-6 dm, pubescent or glabrous. Stems erect, (compressed), not branched, succulent. Leaves persistent, forming basal rosette, alternate, sessile, not connate basally; blade oblanceolate to obovate, laminar to semiterete, 1.5-4(-6) cm, succulent, base not spurred, margins ciliate; veins not conspicuous. Inflorescences terminal cymes. Pedicels absent or to 5 mm. Flowers erect, 8-16-merous; sepals ± connate basally, all alike; petals spreading, distinct, pink to purple; calyx and corolla not circumscissile in fruit; nectaries quadrate; stamens 2+ times as many as sepals; filaments free; pistils erect, connivent; ovary base truncate; styles nearly as long as ovary. Fruits erect. Seeds (brown), ellipsoid, ribbed.

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Fls 6–40-merous; pet distinct or united only at base; stamens twice as many as the pet, the filaments usually pubescent at least at base; carpels distinct or nearly so, the ovaries pubescent, the styles outcurved; fr follicular; seeds numerous; succulent perennials with dense, monocarpic rosettes of broad, flat, alternate, entire, ciliate, sessile lvs, acaulescent in the vegetative phase, and reproducing vegetatively by axillary stolons or seldom by division of the rosettes. 25, Eurasia.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	herb
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Foliage retention	deciduous
Sexuality	hermaphrodite
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Mature width (meter)	1.0
Mature height (meter)	0.1 - 0.6
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