Entry From
Flora of South Africa, (2003) Author: Dr J.P. Roux
Common names
Purgosea hemisphaerica (Thunb.) G. Don, Gen. Syst. 3: 104 (1834). Crassula alooides Dry and. in Ait., Hort. Kew. edn 1, 1: 394 (1789); Britt. & Bak. f. in J. Bot., Lond. 35: 482 (1897). Type: Promontorium Bonae Spei, Masson s.n. (BM, holo.!). C. hemisphaerica Thunb. var. typica Schonl. in Trans. R. Soc. S. Afr. 17: 248 (1929).
Use
102. Crassula hemisphaerica Thunb. in Nova Acta Phys.-Med. Acad. Caes. Leop.-Carol., Nat. Cur. 6: 329, 331 (1778); Prodr. 57 (1794); Fl. Cap. edn Schultes 292 (1823); DC, Prodr. 3: 387 (1828); Harv. in F.C. 2: 367 (1862); Marl, in Trans. S. Afr. phil. Soc. 18: 48, pi. 5,5 (1907); Kapland 227, fig. 88, 3 (1908); Schonl. in Trans. R. Soc. S. Afr. 17: 248 (1929); R.A. Dyer in Flower. PI. Afr. 23, pl.1892 (1943); Jacobsen, Handb. Succ. PI. 313, fig, 316 (I960); Sukk. Lex. 143, t. 43,6 (1970); Higgins, Crass. Cult. 44, pl. 3e (1964); Tolken in Contr. Bolus Herb. 8: 382 (1977). Syntypes: Cape Province, mounĂ‚Âtains in Roggeveld, Thunberg in Herb. Thunberg 7759 (UPS!); Karoo near Olifants River, Thunberg in Herb. Thunberg 7760 (UPS!).