Hylotelephium

Hylotelephium
Hylotelephium spectabile
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Crassulaceae
Genus: Hylotelephium
H.Ohba
Species

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Hylotelephium is a genus of flowering plants in the stonecrop family Crassulaceae. It includes about 33 species distributed in Asia, Europe, and North America.[1]

Species in the genus, formerly included in Sedum, are popular garden plants, known as "sedum", "stonecrop", "live-for-ever" or "orpine". Horticulturalists have hybridized many of the species to create new cultivars. Many of the newer ones are patented, so may not be propagated without a license.

Taxonomy

Hylotelephium is one of a group of genera that form a separate lineage from Sedum, and is closely related to Orostachys, Meterostachys, and Sinocrassula.[2] According to the Missouri Botanic garden, "Upright Sedums were at one point separated into the genus Hylotelephium, but are now generally included back in the genus Sedum."[3] Kew Garden's online database now lists Hylotelephium as a synonym for Sedum.[4]

Species

Species include:[5]

Species placed here by some taxonomists include:

Hybrids

Etymology

Hylotelephium means ‘woodland distant lover’. ‘Hylo’ is derived from Greek, meaning ‘forest’ or ‘woodland’. ‘Telephium’, also derived from Greek, means ‘distant-lover’; the plant was thought to be able to indicate when one’s affections were returned.[6]

References

  1. ↑ Kunjun Fu, Hideaki Ohba, and Michael G. Gilbert, "Hylotelephium H. Ohba, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo). 90: 46. 1977", Flora of China online, 8
  2. ↑ Mayuzumi, S.; Ohba, H. (2004), "The Phylogenetic Position of Eastern Asian Sedoideae (Crassulaceae) Inferred from Chloroplast and Nuclear DNA Sequences", Systematic Botany, 29 (3): 587–598, doi:10.1600/0363644041744329, JSTOR 25063994
  3. ↑ http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=a736
  4. ↑ http://plantsoftheworldonline.org/?q=Hylotelephium
  5. ↑ The Plant List, retrieved 27 July 2016
  6. ↑ Gledhill, David (2008). "The Names of Plants". Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521866453 (hardback), ISBN 9780521685535 (paperback). pp 207,373


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