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The section presents information on Orostachys (O.), a genus of succulent plant belonging to the family Crassulaceae. The plants are monocarpic succulent rosulate normally offsetting herbs, usually ± xerophytic; roots are fibrous; basal leaves forming a conspicuous rosette before flowering; rosulate; leaves are sessile, glabrous, spurless, tips often cartilaginous; flowering stems terminal, simple, laxly to ± densely leafy, erect, leaves are alternate, sessile, spurless, fleshy, glabrous (to hairy), often glaucous; inflorescence thyrsoid-paniculate to thyrsoid-racemose. The plants are found in Tadzhikistan, Kirgizia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan and Mongolia.

The section presents information on Rhodiola (R.), a genus of succulent plant belonging to the family Crassulaceae. These are perennial herbs with well developed rhizomes; rhizomes massive or slender, erect to creeping, apical part with foliage and/or scaly leaves; leaves alternate, simple, herbaceous, mostly flat; flowering stems arising from the axis of the scaly or, rarely, foliage radical leaves, annual, sometimes persistent for a while, unbranched, with terminal inflorescence. The taxa in the group include R. algida, R. alsia, R. amabilis and R. angusta. The plants can be found in Europe, Siberia, East Asia, North America and especially in subarctic and alpine zones.

The section presents information on Hylotelephium (H.), a genus of succulent plant belonging to the family Crassulaceae. These are perennial herbs with a rootstock and sometimes stout root; flowering stems arising from adventitious buds on the rootstock or from basal nodes of the former years' flowering stem, simple, annual or persistent. The taxa in the group include H. anacampseros, H. augustum and H. bonnafousil. The plants are distributed in Europe, Caucasus, Siberia, East Asia and North America.

The section presents information on Meterostachys (M.), a genus of succulent plant belonging to the family Crassulaceae. The plants are perennials with thickened taproot and small rosett; rosulate leaves linear to linear-triangular; flowers are hermaphrodite. Leaves are alternate or ternate, sessile, linear-subulate or linear-lanceolate; inflorescence terminal, cymose, bracheate and lax. The plants are distributed in Japan, Korea and China. Its etymology originated from the Greek word stachys, meaning, spike; for the inflorescences.

The section presents information on Perrierrosedum (P.), a genus of succulent plant belonging to the family Crassulaceae. These are perennial shrublets 50-80 centimeter tall, branched; branches are glabrous, 4-angled; leaves are opposite, oblong-spatulate, 2.5-5 by 1.5-2.5 centimeter, sessile, tip rounded, base long attenuate, margin crenulate; inflorescnce terminal, corymbose-cymose, 5- to 10-flowered. The taxa in the group include P. madagascariense. The plants can be found in Madagascar.