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Crassula spathulata Thunb.
Crassula spathulata Thunb.
Nomenclature
Thunb.
Thunb.
ICN
Crassula spathulata Thunb.
species
Crassula spathulata
Classification
Descriptions
Crassula spathulata Thunb.
Glabrous, perennial herb; stems creeping, trailing and decumbent, rooting at nodes. Lvs with petioles 2-7 mm long, scattered along stems, closer on distal parts, not decussate or imbricate except at stem apices, to 15 × 15 mm, broadly ovate to suborbicular, flat or nearly so, green; margins crenulate and with whitish hydathodes between teeth (hydathodes otherwise 0); base broadly cuneate, rounded or slightly subcordate; apex obtuse or rounded. Infl. a very loose thyrse with ± divaricating branches, to c. 7 cm long, generally wider than long; main axis lacking bracts except at apex. Fls 5-merous, c. 10 mm diam., usually 10-many, on pedicels = or slightly > fls at anthesis. Calyx 0.6-1 mm long; lobes triangular-oblong. Corolla star-like; petals free, patent, 3.5-5 × c. 1 mm, lanceolate-acuminate or narrowly triangular- oblong, pink to rose outside, whitish or pale pink inside. Stamens 2-3 mm long, < carpels. Scales 0.1-0.2 mm long, ± narrowly rectangular (wider than long). Frs and seeds not seen; infls lacking plantlets.
Taxonomic concepts
Crassula spathulata Thunb.
Crassula spathulata Thunb.
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1 January 2000