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CRASSULA tetragona Linn. [family CRASSULACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 tetragona Linn. [family CRASSULACEAE], Sp. 404;—DC. l. c. p. 384. E. & Z.! 1879. Zey! 2533. DC. Pl. Grass. t. 19.
Information
stem erect, shrubby, terete, branched; leaves decussately sub-connate, subulate-trigonous, much longer than the internodes, fleshy, flattish above, incurved, acute, glabrous; cyme terminal, pedunculate, corymboso-paniculate, with toothlike bracts; calyx-lobes short, ovate, bluntish, keeled; petals connate at base, spreading, ovate, subacute; styles shortly subulate; squamæ minute, emarginate. Stem 1–2 feet high, glabrous, corymbosely branched; branches suberect. Leaf pairs 3–6 lines apart; leaves 1 1/2–1 3/4 inch long. 2–2 1/2 lines thick, widely spreading at base, falcato-incurved. Peduncle 2–3 inches long; panicle much branched, the divisions densely cymose. Flowers small and white.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Woods near Zwartkops R., and Zoutpanshoodge, E. & Z.! (Herb. Sd., D., Hk.)

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 tetragona Linn. [family CRASSULACEAE], Sp. 404;—DC. l. c. p. 384. E. & Z.! 1879. Zey! 2533. DC. Pl. Grass. t. 19.
Information
stem erect, shrubby, terete, branched; leaves decussately sub-connate, subulate-trigonous, much longer than the internodes, fleshy, flattish above, incurved, acute, glabrous; cyme terminal, pedunculate, corymboso-paniculate, with toothlike bracts; calyx-lobes short, ovate, bluntish, keeled; petals connate at base, spreading, ovate, subacute; styles shortly subulate; squamæ minute, emarginate. Stem 1–2 feet high, glabrous, corymbosely branched; branches suberect. Leaf pairs 3–6 lines apart; leaves 1 1/2–1 3/4 inch long. 2–2 1/2 lines thick, widely spreading at base, falcato-incurved. Peduncle 2–3 inches long; panicle much branched, the divisions densely cymose. Flowers small and white.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Woods near Zwartkops R., and Zoutpanshoodge, E. & Z.! (Herb. Sd., D., Hk.)

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 tetragona Linn. [family CRASSULACEAE], Sp. 404;—DC. l. c. p. 384. E. & Z.! 1879. Zey! 2533. DC. Pl. Grass. t. 19.
Information
stem erect, shrubby, terete, branched; leaves decussately sub-connate, subulate-trigonous, much longer than the internodes, fleshy, flattish above, incurved, acute, glabrous; cyme terminal, pedunculate, corymboso-paniculate, with toothlike bracts; calyx-lobes short, ovate, bluntish, keeled; petals connate at base, spreading, ovate, subacute; styles shortly subulate; squamæ minute, emarginate. Stem 1–2 feet high, glabrous, corymbosely branched; branches suberect. Leaf pairs 3–6 lines apart; leaves 1 1/2–1 3/4 inch long. 2–2 1/2 lines thick, widely spreading at base, falcato-incurved. Peduncle 2–3 inches long; panicle much branched, the divisions densely cymose. Flowers small and white.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Woods near Zwartkops R., and Zoutpanshoodge, E. & Z.! (Herb. Sd., D., Hk.)
CRASSULA tetragona Linn. [family CRASSULACEAE]
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