3168.000 Crassula L.

Description of the genus

Annual or perennial succulent herbs, subshrubs or shrubs with succulent leaves. Leaves opposite, usually decussate, the lowest usually rosulate, free or ± connate in a sheath, usually simple, undivided and entire. Flowers usually 5-merous, usually small, not showy, in cymes which are arranged in axillary clusters, thyrses, corymb-like inflorescences or with 1(-2) flowers in the leaf axils. Sepals free or connate at base. Corolla usually white, sometimes turning brown when dry; petals connate at base into a tube. Stamens as many as petals. Carpels free or connate at base.

Worldwide: 200 spp, almost cosmopolitan.

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
alba Forssk. var. alba M
alsinoides (Hook. f.) Engl.MSDescription, Image
alticola R. Fern.[NrEnd]MSDescription, Image
expansa Dryand. var. longifolia R. Fern.GI
expansa Dryand. subsp. fragilis (Baker) Tölken var. fragilis MS,MDescription, Image
heterotricha SchinzM
lanceolata (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Endl. ex Walp. subsp. lanceolata T,GI
lanceolata (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Endl. ex Walp. subsp. transvaalensis (Kuntze) ToelkenMS,GI,MDescription, Image
leachii R. Fern.MS
maputensis R. Fern.M
morrumbalensis R. Fern.Z
nodulosa Schönland var. nodulosa MS
nodulosa Schönland var. longisepala R. Fern.MSDescription, Image
nodulosa Schönland[Agg]MSDescription, Image
ovata (Mill.) DruceM
sarcocaulis Eckl. & Zeyh. subsp. sarcocaulis MSDescription, Image
setulosa Harv. var. rubra (N.E. Br.) HowleyN
setulosa Harv. var. setulosa MSDescription, Image
similis Baker f.M
swaziensis Schönland subsp. swaziensis var. swaziensis T,MS,MDescription, Image
swaziensis Schönland subsp. swaziensis var. guruensis R. Fern.Z
vaginata Eckl. & Zeyh.N,T,MSDescription, Image
zombensis Baker f.Z

Other sources of information about Crassula:

Flora of Zimbabwe: Crassula
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Crassula
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Crassula
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Crassula
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Crassula
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Crassula

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Stefaan Dondeyne 2007-13

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Dondeyne, S. (2013). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Crassula.
http://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=645, retrieved 20 May 2013

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