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CRASSULA dentata Thunb. [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 dentata Thunb. [family CRASSULACEAE], ! Cap. 293;—E. & Z.! 1857
Petrogeton typicum E. & Z. [family ], ! 1854. Drege! 6886.
Information
stem herbaceous, simple or forked, with distant nodes; leaves opposite or subfasciculate, on very long petioles, reniform, at base either cordate or cuneate, repando-crenate or lobulate, or subentire, thinnish, membranous when dry, glabrous; flowers patently cymose, on slender pedicels, the lower ones sometimes crowded in the axils; calyx lobes short, blunt, oblong, glabrous; petals free, ovato-lanceolate, acute. A weak, soft, succulent herb, with something the habit of Chrysosplenium oppositifolium, variable in size, 3–6 inches long or more. Petioles 1–3 inches long, slender. Leaves 1/2–1 inch wide, shorter than their width, occasionally smaller or larger: in the smaller forms subentire; in the larger with a few wide crenatures or very shallow lobules. Flowers 2 lines long, starlike, in a more or less developed cyme.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Rocky mountain clefts, Bockeveld and Rodesand, and Ribek-Kasteel, Thunberg! Table Mountain; also mountains near Hex River, Worces. and Cederbergen, Clanw., E. & Z.! Nieuwekloof, Drege! Witsenberg at Tigerkloof, Tulbagh, Dr. Pappe! (Herb. Thunb., Hk., D., Sd.)
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 dentata Thunb. [family CRASSULACEAE], ! Cap. 293;—E. & Z.! 1857
Petrogeton typicum E. & Z. [family ], ! 1854. Drege! 6886.
Information
stem herbaceous, simple or forked, with distant nodes; leaves opposite or subfasciculate, on very long petioles, reniform, at base either cordate or cuneate, repando-crenate or lobulate, or subentire, thinnish, membranous when dry, glabrous; flowers patently cymose, on slender pedicels, the lower ones sometimes crowded in the axils; calyx lobes short, blunt, oblong, glabrous; petals free, ovato-lanceolate, acute. A weak, soft, succulent herb, with something the habit of Chrysosplenium oppositifolium, variable in size, 3–6 inches long or more. Petioles 1–3 inches long, slender. Leaves 1/2–1 inch wide, shorter than their width, occasionally smaller or larger: in the smaller forms subentire; in the larger with a few wide crenatures or very shallow lobules. Flowers 2 lines long, starlike, in a more or less developed cyme.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Rocky mountain clefts, Bockeveld and Rodesand, and Ribek-Kasteel, Thunberg! Table Mountain; also mountains near Hex River, Worces. and Cederbergen, Clanw., E. & Z.! Nieuwekloof, Drege! Witsenberg at Tigerkloof, Tulbagh, Dr. Pappe! (Herb. Thunb., Hk., D., Sd.)
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 dentata Thunb. [family CRASSULACEAE], ! Cap. 293;—E. & Z.! 1857
Petrogeton typicum E. & Z. [family ], ! 1854. Drege! 6886.
Information
stem herbaceous, simple or forked, with distant nodes; leaves opposite or subfasciculate, on very long petioles, reniform, at base either cordate or cuneate, repando-crenate or lobulate, or subentire, thinnish, membranous when dry, glabrous; flowers patently cymose, on slender pedicels, the lower ones sometimes crowded in the axils; calyx lobes short, blunt, oblong, glabrous; petals free, ovato-lanceolate, acute. A weak, soft, succulent herb, with something the habit of Chrysosplenium oppositifolium, variable in size, 3–6 inches long or more. Petioles 1–3 inches long, slender. Leaves 1/2–1 inch wide, shorter than their width, occasionally smaller or larger: in the smaller forms subentire; in the larger with a few wide crenatures or very shallow lobules. Flowers 2 lines long, starlike, in a more or less developed cyme.
Distribution
SOUTH AFRICA Rocky mountain clefts, Bockeveld and Rodesand, and Ribek-Kasteel, Thunberg! Table Mountain; also mountains near Hex River, Worces. and Cederbergen, Clanw., E. & Z.! Nieuwekloof, Drege! Witsenberg at Tigerkloof, Tulbagh, Dr. Pappe! (Herb. Thunb., Hk., D., Sd.)
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