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Crassula turrita

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Identification
Crassula turrita Thunb. [family CRASSULACEAE ]
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  • Crassula turrita

Flora

Entry for CRASSULA Turrita Thunb. [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 Turrita Thunb. [family CRASSULACEAE], Fl. Cap. 285;—DC. l. c. 388. Jacq. Schoenbr. t. 52.
Pyrgosea Turrita Haw. [family ], E. & Z.! 1905. Zey.! 2543, 2544.
Information
herbaceous; radical leaves subrosulate, spreading, oblong or lanceolate, acute or subacute, glabrous, cartilagineo-ciliate; stem simple, terete, leafy below, floriferous above; cymules capitato-fasciculate, sessile in the axils of opposite, leafy bracts, forming an interrupted thyrsus; calyx-lobes 2/3 of corolla, glabrous, keeled; petals oblong, fleshy, concave, dorsally subumbonate; stigma sessile; squamæ minute. Leaves crowded near the base of the stem, 2–3 inches long, 3/4–1 inch wide, varying from lanceolate to oblong and obovate. Stem 6 inches to nearly 2 feet high, tapering with depauperated leaves. Flowers in a leafy, spicate thyrsus; the tufts sessile. Corolla 1 line long.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Fields near the Zwartkops R., Uit., E. & Z.! Olifants R., Thunb. β. near the Zwartkops; also on Amsterdamvlakte, Algoa Bay, Zey.! (Herb. Sd., D., Hk.)

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