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Crassula campestris

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Name

Identification
Crassula campestris (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Endl. [family CRASSULACEAE ] (stored under name); Tillaea pharnaceoides Hochst. [family CRASSULACEAE ]
Related name
  • Crassula unrecorded
  • Crassula rhodesica
  • Crassula tillaea
  • Combesia abyssinica
  • Disporocarpa pharnaceoides
  • Crassula pharnaceoides
  • Tetraphyle campestris
  • Crassula transvaalensis
  • Crassula not on sheet
  • Crassula alata
  • Tillaea pharnaceoides
  • Crassula campestris

Flora

Entry for CRASSULA campestris 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 campestris E. & Z. [family CRASSULACEAE], ! 1873
CRASSULA lanceolata E. & Z. [family CRASSULACEAE], ! 1874. Drege! 6910. Zey.! 2514, 2516.
Information
stem herbaceous, thread-like, erect or decumbent, branching, leafy throughout; leaves connate at base, often with axillary leaf-tufts, ovato-lanceolate or lanceolate, acuminate, almost hairpointed; flowers minute in axillary dense clusters, minutely pedicellate; calyx-lobes longer than corolla, subulato-lanceolate, very acute; petals connate, lanceolate-acuminate or hair-pointed; styles abruptly subulate. A small annual 2–4 inches high, simple or branched. Leaves 2–4 lines long, 1/2 line wide. Flowers 1 line long; the calyx much longer than the delicate corolla. Known from C. muscosa by the very taper-pointed leaves, sepals and petals. C. lanceolata, E. & Z.! has larger leaves than the original specimens of C. campestris, but their character varies and both plants grow together.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Fields near the Zwartkops R., and Krakakamma, E. & Z.! Buffeljagds-rivier, Zeyher! Compasberg and Nieuweveld, Drege! Simonsbay, C. Wright! (Herb. Sd., Hk., D.)

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