''Sedum microstachyum'' is a species of

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

in the family Crassulaceae. It is referred to by the common name small-spiked stonecrop. It is an erect, succulent,

monocarpic Monocarpic plants are those that flower and set seeds only once, and then die. The term is derived from Greek (''mono'', "single" + ''karpos'', "fruit" or "grain"), and was first used by Alphonse de Candolle. Other terms with the same meaning are ...

herb, with an unbranched stem up to 40 cm high. Leaves succulent, simple, entire, glandular, hairy, reddish in sunny positions,

sessile Sessility, or sessile, may refer to: * Sessility (motility), organisms which are not able to move about * Sessility (botany), flowers or leaves that grow directly from the stem or peduncle of a plant * Sessility (medicine), tumors and polyps that ...

, the basal crowded in rosettes, spathulate-linear 3-7 x 0.5-1.5 cm, the higher smaller, spirally arranged. Flowers actinomorphic, small, reddish or greenish, in a cylindrical

panicle A panicle is a much-branched inflorescence. (softcover ). Some authors distinguish it from a compound spike inflorescence, by requiring that the flowers (and fruit) be pedicellate (having a single stem per flower). The branches of a panicle are of ...

, Flowers from June to September. Fruit a many-seeded follicle.The Endemic Plants of Cyprus, Texts: Takis Ch. Tsintides, Photographs: Laizos Kourtellarides, Cyprus Association of Professional Foresters, Bank of Cyprus Group, Nicosia 1998,

Habitat

Rock crevices on igneous formations at 1500–1900 m altitude.

Distribution

Endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

Cyprus Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...

, confined to the Troödos forest where it is fairly common: Chromion, Khionistra, Loumata, Aeton and Troödos Square.

References

External links

* http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JPvTiMx4TYA/Us0Uzip_zfI/AAAAAAAAPbQ/LDHDQZVl2As/s1600/Sedum+microstachyum+(1).JPG * http://botany.cz/cs/sedum-microstachyum/ * http://www.rareplants.es/shop/uploads/images_products_large/10604.jpg * http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2483382 * http://blog-imgs-44-origin.fc2.com/h/a/w/haworthia/s-microstachyum120325-3.jpg {{Taxonbar, from=Q17607746 microstachyum Endemic flora of Cyprus Taxa named by Pierre Edmond Boissier Taxa named by Theodor Kotschy