| Hylotelephium | |
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| Hylotelephium spectabile | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Saxifragales |
| Family: | Crassulaceae |
| Subfamily: | Sempervivoideae |
| Genus: | Hylotelephium H.Ohba |
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| Hylotelephium telephium (L.) H.Ohba | |
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Hylotelephium is a genusofflowering plants in the stonecrop family Crassulaceae. It includes about 33 species distributed in Asia, Europe, and North America.
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 SedumbyGray 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]
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| Hylotelephium anacampseros | ||
| Hylotelephium angustum | ||
| Hylotelephium × bergeri | ||
| Hylotelephium bonnafousii | ||
| Hylotelephium callichromum | ||
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Hylotelephium cauticola | Hokkaido, Japan |
| Hylotelephium cyaneum | ||
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Hylotelephium erythrostictum | Japan, Korea, Russia and China. |
| Hylotelephium ewersii | ||
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Hylotelephium maximum | |
| Hylotelephium mingjinianum | ||
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Hylotelephium pallescens | China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, Russia |
| Hylotelephium pluricaule | ||
| Hylotelephium populifolium | ||
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Hylotelephium sieboldii | Japan |
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Hylotelephium sordidum | |
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Hylotelephium spectabile | China and Korea. |
| Hylotelephium sukaczevii | ||
| Hylotelephium tatarinowii | ||
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Hylotelephium telephioides | USA extends from Georgia to Illinois and New York, and it has introduced populations in Ontario. |
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Hylotelephium telephium | Eurasia. |
| Hylotelephium tianschanicum | ||
| Hylotelephium uralense | ||
| Hylotelephium ussuriense | ||
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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]
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