Hylotelephium spectabile (Boreau) H.Ohba

Glabrous, deciduous, perennial, clump-forming herb with erect annual stems, to c. 40 cm high. Lvs opposite, subsessile or with broad petioles to 1 cm long, distributed along stems (excluding very small overwintering bud rosettes at ground level), not or scarcely imbricate, to 9 × 7 cm and c. 1 mm thick, broadly elliptic or elliptic-ovate, flat, green or glaucescent, sinuate or distantly and broadly crenulate; apex rounded or obtuse. Infl. terminal, erect, 7–13 cm across, usually 8–12 cm high, corymbose-paniculate, bracteate, very flat, with few primary branches and many peduncles. Fls very numerous, with pedicels 2–5 mm long, not secund. Sepals equal, 2–3 mm long, triangular or triangular- lanceolate. Petals 5, ± incurved, 5.5–8.5 × 1.5–2 mm, lanceolate, pink, acute or subacute. Stamens 6–11 mm long; filaments pink; anthers deep crimson. Carpels and styles pink. Scales linear-spathulate to oblong or oblong-obovate. Follicles dark crimson, ± parallel. Seed c. 1 mm long, obovoid, with faint longitudinal ribs.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4. as Sedum spectabile Boreau]

Flowering: Feb.–Apr.