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Crassula peculiaris

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Isotype of Crassula expansa Dryand. subsp. peculiaris Toelken [family CRASSULACEAE]
Holotype of Crassula peculiaris (Toelken) Toelken&Wickens [family CRASSULACEAE]
Isotype of Crassula expansa Dryand. subsp. peculiaris Toelken [family CRASSULACEAE]
Isotype of Crassula peculiaris (Toelken) Toelken & Wickens [family CRASSULACEAE]
Isotype of Crassula expansa Dryand. [family CRASSULACEAE]
Holotype of Crassula peculiaris (Toelken) Toelken&Wickens [family CRASSULACEAE]
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Identification
Crassula expansa Dryand. [family CRASSULACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Crassula peculiaris (Toelken) Toelken&Wickens [family CRASSULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Crassula expansa
  • Crassula peculiaris

Flora

Entry for Crassula peculiaris [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 peculiaris [family CRASSULACEAE]
Common names
C. expansa Dryand. in Ait., subsp. peculiaris Tolken in Jl S. Afr. Bot. 41: 105 (1975); in Contr. Bolus Herb. 8: 171 (1977).
Information
Perennials with slender prostrate branches up to 0,3 m long forming irregular mats, sometimes with fine adventitious roots. Leaves with petioles up to 3 mm long; lamina ovate to broadly elliptic, 3-8(-10) x (2-)4-6 mm, usually obtuse, dorsiventrally compressed, covered with long fine hairs, green. Inflorescence with solitary flowers in the axil of leaves. Calyx: lobes linear-lan­ceolate, c. 3 mm long, obtuse to rounded, with scattered hairs, fleshy, green. Corolla cup-shaped, scarcely fused basally, white; lobes elliptic-oblong, 3,5-4 mm long, obtuse to rounded, erect to slightly recurved. Sta­mens with yellowish anthers. Squamae transversely oblong to almost square, c. 0,4 x 0,4-0,5 mm, truncate to slightly emargi-nate, slightly constricted downwards, some­what fleshy, white.
Habitat
Similar to C. tenuicaulis (below), C. papillosa (no. 31) and C. expansa (no. 32) but differing in habit and habitat and especially in its distinctly papillose seeds.
Use
33. Crassula peculiaris (Tolken) Tolken & Wickens, comb, et stat. nov. Type: Cape, east of Olievenberg, Esterhuy-sen 28832 (BOL, holo.!).
Range
Found in the Cape Province where it is recorded only from the vicinity of Swartberg Pass in the Groot Swartberg range; growing in moist places in the shade of rocks at an altitude above 1 500 m. Flowering period: November-March.

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