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Crassula decumbens

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Identification
Crassula decumbens Thunb. [family CRASSULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Bulliarda trichotoma
  • Tillaea ovallei
  • Tillaea macrantha
  • Crassula mongolica
  • Crassula thunbergiana
  • Crassula debilis
  • Tillaea capensis
  • Tillaea radicans
  • Helophytum nutans
  • Tillaea brevifolia
  • Tillaea mongolica
  • Crassula decumbens
  • Crassula unrecorded
  • Tillaea decumbens
  • Bulliarda brevifolia
  • Crassula leipoldtii
  • Tillaea not on sheet
  • Builliarda brevifolia
  • Crassula brachyphylla
  • Crassula nutans

Flora

Entry for CRASSULA decumbens E. & Z. [family CRASSULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 327, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
CRASSULA decumbens E. & Z. [family CRASSULACEAE], ! 1933, non Thunb.
CRASSULA glabra E. Mey e [family CRASSULACEAE], ! in Hb. Drege.
Information
stem annual, diffuse or procumbent, irregularly branched, filiform, glabrous; leaves connate, linear-fleshy, obtuse, glabrous; flowers minute, in tufts at the nodes, the terminal ones cymose or subumbellate, all on filiform pedicels; calyx-lobes longer than the corolla, linear, blunt, glabrous, fleshy; petals connate at base, oblong, obtuse; styles shortly subulate; squamæ cuneate. With the habit of an Adenogramma. It is known from C. glabra by the irregular branching, the tufts of usually long stalked but occasionally subsessile flowers at the nodes, and the much longer and more linear calyx-lobes. Stems 3–4 inches long, very weak and slender. Leaves 2–3 lines long, 1/4 line wide. Flowers 1 line long.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Sandy spots at Greenpoint, and near Saldanha Bay, E. & Z.! Simons Bay, C. Wright! 552, 561. Berg River, Zey! 651. (Herb. Sd., D., Hk.)
Notes
Thunberg's “C. decumbens,” according to his Herbarium is Bulliarda trichotoma, E. & Z.!

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