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Crassula similis

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Name

Identification
Crassula similis Baker f. [family CRASSULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Crassula atro-sanguinea Beauverd [family CRASSULACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Crassula wilmsii
  • Crassula atro-sanguinea
  • Crassula similis

Flora

Entry for Crassula similis Bak. f. [family CRASSULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 7, Part 1, page 3, (1983) Author: R. Fernandes
Names
Crassula similis Bak. f. [family CRASSULACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss., Sér. 2, 3: 814 (1903). — Burtt Davy, F.P.F.T. 1: 140 (1926). — R. Fernandes in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér. 2, 55: 113 (1982). Type from S. Africa (Transvaal).
Crassula wilmsii Diels [family CRASSULACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 39: 464 (1907). — Burtt Davy, loc. cit. (1926). — Merxm. & al. in Ann. Naturh. Mus. Wien 75: 113 (1971). Type from S. Africa (Transvaal).
Crassula atrosanguinea Beauverd [family CRASSULACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss., Sér. 2, 7: 1013, fig. pag. 1014 (1907). — Barbey in Kew Bull. 1908, App.: 84 (1908). Type a cultivated plant at “La Pierriere”, (Chambery, near Genève) originally from S. Africa (Transvaal).
Crassula rubicunda var. similis Bak. f. Schönl. [family CRASSULACEAE], in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 17, 3: 230 (1929). Type as for Crassula similis.
Crassula rubicunda var. parvisepala Schönl. [family CRASSULACEAE], tom. cit.: 231 (1929). Type as for Crassula wilmisii.
Crassula rubicunda var. lydenburgensis Schönl. [family CRASSULACEAE], loc. cit. (1929). Type from S. Africa (Transvaal, Lydenburg).
Crassula alba var. parvisepala Schönl. Tölken [family CRASSULACEAE], in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 41, 2: 93 (1975); in Contr. Bolus Herb. 8, 2: 368 (1977). Type as for Crassula wilmsii.
Information
Very similar to C. alba (No. 15) but differing vegetatively in the more numerous, denser and more persistent basal leaves which become coriaceous with age, the oldest ones drying and disintegrating to leave a proximal stub; in the stem indumentum which usually consists of very short, bulliform papillae; in the shorter (up to 0·5 cm. long) cauline leaf-sheaths; and in the usually shorter cauline leaves of which the uppermost rarely exceed the internodes. Distinguishing features of the reproductive plant include denser, hemispherical to subspherical, not flat-topped, inflorescences, and smaller flowers and fruits. Thus, calyx (1)1·25-2-5(3) mm. long, usually less than half as long as corolla, with triangular or ovate-lanceolate sepals less acute than in C. alba and marginal cilia absent or present and then small and few; corolla 2·5-3·5(4) mm. long, carmine or purple; stamens with filaments 1·75-2·25 mm. and anthers 0·5 mm. long. According to Tölken (tom. cit.: 365 et 368, 1977) the ovary in C. similis contains 8-10 ovules compared with 14-30 in C. alba.
Habitat
In the rupideserta.
Distribution
Mozambique M Libombos Mts. near Namaacha, Ponduine Mt., 800 m., 22.ii.1955, E. M. & W. 515 (LISC; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa (Transvaal)
Swaziland

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