Kingdom Plantae Family Crassulaceae Rank Species | Order Saxifragales Genus Sedum | |
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Sedum porphyreum, 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.
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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, Arodhes, Neonkhorio etc.) and in Kyrenia District.
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