Vasilis Teodoridis:
Crassulaceae | Rhodiola
46. Rhodiola yunnanensis (Franchet) S. H. Fu; Acta Phytotax. Sin.; Addit. 1: 126. 1965.
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Sedum yunnanense Franchet; J. Bot. (Morot) 10: 286. 1896; Rhodiola henryi (Diels) S. H. Fu; R. papillocarpa (Fröderström) S. H. Fu; R. rotundifolia (Fröderström) S. H. Fu; R. sinica (Diels) Jacobsen; Sedum henryi Diels; S. sinicum Diels; S. valerianoides Diels; S. yunnanense var. henryi (Diels) Raymond-Hamet; S. yunnanense var. oxyphyllum Fröderström; S. yunnanense var. papillocarpum Fröderström; S. yunnanense var. rotundifolium Fröderström; S. yunnanense var. valerianoides (Diels) Raymond-Hamet.
Caudex simple or few branched; long; 0.7-2 cm in diam. Caudex leaves scalelike; lanceolate; ovate-triangular; or triangular. Flowering stems solitary or few; erect; 20-100 cm; glabrous. Stem leaves 3-verticillate; rarely opposite; sessile; abaxially pale green; ovate-lanceolate; elliptic; oblong; ovate-oblong; broadly ovate; or orbicular; (1-)4-7(-10) x (0.6-)2-4(-8) cm; base rounded-cuneate; margin remotely serrate; sublobate; or rarely entire; apex obtuse to acute. Inflorescences cymose-paniculate; (3-)5-15 x 2-8 cm; branches verticillate. Flowers numerous; unisexual; unequally 4- or 5-merous in male plants; small. Sepals linear-lanceolate to lanceolate; 0.5-1 mm. Petals of male flowers greenish yellow to yellow; spatulate to oblong-lanceolate; ca. 1.5 mm; those of female flowers purple; linear; ca. 1.2 mm. Stamens 8; shorter than petals. Nectar scales spatulate-quadrate or cuneate-quadrate in male flowers; suborbicular in female ones. Carpels divergent; ovoid; 1.5-3 mm. Follicles stellate; 3-3.2 mm; base connate for ca. 1 mm. Seeds lanceolate; ca. 2 x 0.4 mm; winged. Fl. May-Jul; fr. Jun-Aug.
* Forests on slopes; 1000-4000 m. Gansu; Guizhou; Henan; Hubei; Shaanxi; Sichuan; Xizang; Yunnan.