{{Short description|Genus of succulents}} {{Automatic taxobox |image = Lenophyllum Texanum.jpg |image_caption = ''Lenophyllum texanum'' |display_parents = 2 |taxon = Lenophyllum |authority = Rose<ref name="GRIN">{{cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?6642 |title=Genus: ''Lenophyllum'' Rose. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2003-06-12 |access-date=2010-04-28}}</ref> |subdivision_ranks = Species |subdivision = See text }}

'''''Lenophyllum''''' is a genus of flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae. The roughly seven species it contains are distributed in Texas in the United States and northeastern Mexico.<ref name="eFloras">{{cite web |url=http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=1&taxon_id=117955 |first=Reid V. |last=Moran |title=''Lenophyllum'' Rose, Smithsonian Misc. Collect. 47: 159, figs. 18, 19, plate 20. 1904. |work=Flora of North America |publisher=eFloras |access-date=2011-05-20}}</ref> Some authorities place it in the genus ''Sedum''.<ref name="GRIN"/> Plants in this genus are distinguished from ''Sedum'' species by the presence of terminal inflorescences, erect petals, and opposite leaves.<ref name="Stephenson">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jo9VgQAsMtkC |title=Sedum: Cultivated Stonecrops |first=Ray |last=Stephenson |publisher=Timber Press |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-88192-238-7 |pages=71–73}}</ref> The name is derived from the Ancient Greek words ληνός (''lenos''), meaning "trough", and φύλλον (''phyllon''), meaning "leaf."<ref name="eFloras"/>

==Selected species== * ''Lenophyllum acutifolium'' <small>Rose</small> * ''Lenophyllum guttatum'' <small>Rose</small><ref name="Quintanilla">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k6RkjAuRR2YC |title=Flora de Coahuila |first=José Ángel |last=Villarreal Quintanilla |publisher=UNAM |year=2001 |isbn=978-968-36-9771-4 |page=82}}</ref> * ''Lenophyllum texanum'' <small>(J.G.Sm.) Rose</small> &ndash; Coastal stonecrop<ref name="ITIS">{{ITIS |id=500373 |taxon=''Lenophyllum'' |access-date=2010-04-28}}</ref> * ''Lenophyllum weinbergii'' <small>Britton</small><ref name="Quintanilla"/>

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==External links== *{{Commons category-inline|Lenophyllum|''Lenophyllum''}}

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Category:Crassulaceae Category:Crassulaceae genera Category:Succulent plants

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