Sedella (plant genus)

Sedella
	Sedella pumila
Systematics
	Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order :	Saxifragales (Saxifragales)
Family :	Thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae)
Subfamily :	Sempervivoideae
Tribe :	Sedeae
Genre :	Sedella
Scientific name
	Sedella
	Britton & Rose

Sedella is a genus of plants fromthe thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae). The botanical name of the genus is a diminutive of the name of the genus Sedum and refers to the very small size of the plants.

description

The species of the genus Sedella are annual , bare plants that usually branch out with often red or reddish shoots that are usually less than 10 centimeters long. Their sitting leaves are opposite to the base of the shoots and alternately above them. They are elongated ovoid to obovate and blunt to rounded. The leaves usually fall off before flowering.

The terminal zymous inflorescence consists of one to several branches, with the wraps rolled up almost in a circle. The upright, almost sessile flowers are five-fold and are located on very short flower stalks. The same sepals are erect and almost free. They are triangular in shape, pointed and not spurred. The bright to light or greenish yellow petals often have a reddish midrib and are much longer than the petals.

The nut-like fruits are club-shaped, thin-skinned and do not tear open. They each contain an elongated, clubbed, longitudinally striped seed 0.7 to 1.5 millimeters in size.

Systematics and distribution

The genus Sedella is common in northern and central California . The first description was made by Nathaniel Lord Britton and Joseph Nelson Rose in 1903. According to Joachim Thiede , the genus Sedella consists of three species:

Sedella leiocarpa H.Sharsm.
Sedella pentandra H.Sharsm.
Sedella pumila ( Benth. ) Britton & Rose

proof

literature

Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 243-244 .

Individual evidence

^ Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden . Volume 3, No. 9, p. 45, New York 1903
^ Reid Joachim Thiede: Sedella . In: Urs Eggli: Succulents Lexicon Volume 4. Crassulaceae (thick-leaf plants) . 2003, pp. 243-244

Web links

Commons : Sedella - collection of images, videos and audio files

Basic literature on the genus Sedella

[1] Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden . Volume 3, No. 9, p. 45, New York 1903

[2] Reid Joachim Thiede: Sedella . In: Urs Eggli: Succulents Lexicon Volume 4. Crassulaceae (thick-leaf plants) . 2003, pp. 243-244