Hylotelephium is a genus of flowering plants in the stonecrop family Crassulaceae. It includes about 33 species distributed in Asia, Europe, and North America.
Hylotelephium | |
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Hylotelephium spectabile | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Order: | Saxifragales |
Family: | Crassulaceae |
Subfamily: | Sempervivoideae |
Genus: | Hylotelephium H.Ohba |
Type species | |
Hylotelephium telephium (L.) H.Ohba
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Species | |
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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.
Hylotelephium telephium and related species have been considered in a number of different ways since first being described by Linnaeus in 1753, including as a section of Sedum by Gray in 1821,[1] or a subgenus. But these taxa are quite distinct from Sedum morphologically.[2]
Hylotelephium is one of a group of genera that form a separate lineage from Sedum, and is closely related to Orostachys, Meterostachys, and Sinocrassula.[3][4]
The separation of the genus has not been universally adopted, for instance a Missouri Botanical Garden website states "Upright Sedums were at one point separated into the genus Hylotelephium, but are now generally included back in the genus Sedum."[5] One of Kew Garden's online databases also lists Hylotelephium as a synonym for Sedum.[6]
The following species are recognised in the genus Hylotelephium:[7]
Image | Scientific name | Distribution |
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Hylotelephium anacampseros | ||
Hylotelephium angustum | ||
Hylotelephium × bergeri | ||
Hylotelephium bonnafousii | ||
Hylotelephium callichromum | ||
Hylotelephium cauticola | Hokkaido, Japan | |
Hylotelephium cyaneum | ||
Hylotelephium erythrostictum | Japan, Korea, Russia and China. | |
Hylotelephium ewersii | ||
Hylotelephium maximum | ||
Hylotelephium mingjinianum | ||
Hylotelephium pallescens | China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Russia | |
Hylotelephium pluricaule | ||
Hylotelephium populifolium | ||
Hylotelephium sieboldii | Japan | |
Hylotelephium sordidum | ||
Hylotelephium spectabile | China and Korea. | |
Hylotelephium sukaczevii | ||
Hylotelephium tatarinowii | ||
Hylotelephium telephioides | USA extends from Georgia to Illinois and New York, and it has introduced populations in Ontario. | |
Hylotelephium telephium | Eurasia. | |
Hylotelephium tianschanicum | ||
Hylotelephium uralense | ||
Hylotelephium ussuriense | ||
Hylotelephium verticillatum | China, Japan, Korea, Russia | |
Hylotelephium viride | ||
Hylotelephium viviparum |
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.[8]