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Crassula gemmifera

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Type of Crassula gemmifera Friedrich [family CRASSULACEAE]
Isotype of Crassula gemmifera Friedrich [family CRASSULACEAE]
Filed as Crassula gemmifera Friedrich [family CRASSULACEAE]
Type of Crassula gemmifera Friedrich [family CRASSULACEAE]
Type of Crassula gemmifera Friedrich [family CRASSULACEAE]
Type of Crassula gemmifera Friedrich [family CRASSULACEAE]
Type of Crassula gemmifera Friedrich [family CRASSULACEAE]
Filed as Crassula gemmifera Friedrich [family CRASSULACEAE]
Filed as Crassula gemmifera Friedrich [family CRASSULACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Crassula gemmifera Friedrich [family CRASSULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Friedrich, H.C.,
Related name
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Flora

Entry for Crassula gemmifera [family CRASSULACEAE]
Herbarium
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Compton Herbarium, Cape Town (SAM)
Collection
Flora of Southern Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Names
Crassula gemmifera [family CRASSULACEAE]
Information
Perennials with erect to decumbent stems up to 70 mm long, more or less branched and often producing adventitious roots where branches touch the ground. Leaves linear or linear-oblanceolate, 3-5 x c. 1 mm, usually obtuse, almost flat above and more or less convex below, spreading to recurved, glabrous, fleshy, pale green. In­florescence with terminal flower in the axil of a leaf due to sympodial growth, with 4-merous flowers. Calyx: lobes broadly tri­angular, c. 0,5 mm long, obtuse. Corolla more or less cup-shaped, scarcely fused at base, white; lobes elliptic-oblong, c. 1,5 mm long, bluntly acute, more or less recurved. Stamens with red anthers. Squamae oblong-cuneate, 0,5-0,7 x 0,1-0,2 mm, slightly rounded, gradually constricted downwards, slightly fleshy, white tinged red above.
Habitat
This species had previously been included in C. vaillantii (above) but the papillate sculpturing of the seed membrane distinguishes it well (Wickens & Bay-water, pers. comm.). The brood buds mentioned by Friedrich (1979) have only been observed on a few specimens and it has not been established whether they occur generally in this species or whether they are only induced by extreme conditions.
Use
5. Crassula gemmifera Friedr. in Mitt, bot. StSamml., Munch. 15: 592, fig. 7 (1979). Type: Lesotho, Sehlabathebe Mountain National Park, Jacot Guillarmod 7/75 (M, holo.).
Range
Widespread in the Drakensberg of north-western Natal, eastern Orange Free State, Lesotho and north­ern parts of the eastern Cape Province; growing in moist places near standing water or in shaded rock crevices. Flowering period: November—February.

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