taxonID	type	description	language	source
CAD17E2FC962523DAF55E9EA300D0A35.taxon	description	Figs 2, 3, 4, 5	en	Yi, Xiao-Wei, Xie, Zhi-Yi, Shen, Xue-Gui, Xu, Wei, Zeng, Qiu-Gen, Tang, Ke, Huang, Yan-Shuang, Fan, Qiang (2025): Sedum qingyuanense (Crassulaceae), a new species from Qingyuan, Guangdong, China. PhytoKeys 268: 45-58, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.268.174287
CAD17E2FC962523DAF55E9EA300D0A35.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. The new species is distinguished from its congeners by the combination of creeping sterile stems, conspicuous pseudopetiolate, and small linear-spatulate sepals (1.8 – 3.2 × 0.5 – 1.5 mm). It differs from close species, S. jinglanii, S. alfredii and S. emarginatum in having creeping sterile stems (vs. ascending sterile stems), smaller sepals and more distinctly pseudopetiolate. In addition, we have also provided photographs of S. emarginatum and S. alfredii (Fig. 6).	en	Yi, Xiao-Wei, Xie, Zhi-Yi, Shen, Xue-Gui, Xu, Wei, Zeng, Qiu-Gen, Tang, Ke, Huang, Yan-Shuang, Fan, Qiang (2025): Sedum qingyuanense (Crassulaceae), a new species from Qingyuan, Guangdong, China. PhytoKeys 268: 45-58, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.268.174287
CAD17E2FC962523DAF55E9EA300D0A35.taxon	description	Description. Perennial herb, entirely glabrous. Stems succulent; fertile stems suberect 5 – 20 cm long, apex erect, usually 3 - branched above; sterile stems present, creeping, rooting at nodes and producing new rosettes. Leaves opposite, conspicuously pseudopetiolate; leaf blades spatulate to broadly obovate, margin entire, apex emarginate, base attenuate with a spur, 1.1 – 5.9 × 0.5 – 1.4 cm. Cymes 3 – 8 cm in diameter, usually 3 - branched, multiflowered; bracts obovate with an obtuse apex. Flowers sessile, 7 – 10 mm long, pentamerous, actinomorphic. Sepals 5, linear-spatulate, 1.8 – 3.2 × 0.5 – 1.5 mm, base spurred. Petals 5, yellow, lanceolate to lanceolate-oblong, 4 – 6 × 1.1 – 1.7 mm, apex acuminate, base connate ca. 0.3 mm. Stamens 10 antepetalous stamens ca. 3 mm long, adnate to petals for ca. 0.3 mm; antesepalous stamens ca. 4.5 mm long. Carpels 5, lanceolate, erect, connate at base, 3 – 4 mm long. Follicles obliquely divergent, many-seeded; placentation marginal. Seeds ovoid, brown at maturity, 0.6 – 0.8 mm long.	en	Yi, Xiao-Wei, Xie, Zhi-Yi, Shen, Xue-Gui, Xu, Wei, Zeng, Qiu-Gen, Tang, Ke, Huang, Yan-Shuang, Fan, Qiang (2025): Sedum qingyuanense (Crassulaceae), a new species from Qingyuan, Guangdong, China. PhytoKeys 268: 45-58, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.268.174287
CAD17E2FC962523DAF55E9EA300D0A35.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the distribution of this species in Qingyuan City.	en	Yi, Xiao-Wei, Xie, Zhi-Yi, Shen, Xue-Gui, Xu, Wei, Zeng, Qiu-Gen, Tang, Ke, Huang, Yan-Shuang, Fan, Qiang (2025): Sedum qingyuanense (Crassulaceae), a new species from Qingyuan, Guangdong, China. PhytoKeys 268: 45-58, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.268.174287
CAD17E2FC962523DAF55E9EA300D0A35.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat. The new species is endemic to Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, southern China, growing on rocky cliffs at 200 – 300 m a. s. l.	en	Yi, Xiao-Wei, Xie, Zhi-Yi, Shen, Xue-Gui, Xu, Wei, Zeng, Qiu-Gen, Tang, Ke, Huang, Yan-Shuang, Fan, Qiang (2025): Sedum qingyuanense (Crassulaceae), a new species from Qingyuan, Guangdong, China. PhytoKeys 268: 45-58, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.268.174287
