Crassula

TETRAGONA ssp. RUDIS  (Schönland & Baker f.) Tölken 1975 (engl./ fr.)

Synonyms :

Crassula rudis   Schönland & Baker f. (1902) /  Creusa tetragona ssp. rudis  (Schönland & Baker f.) P.V. Heath ((1993)

 

Distribution : Growing on gravelly slopes often in rock outcrops and in succulent vegetation, found in the Cape Province, mainly in Namaqualand south of the Orange River to near Garies.

 

 

Description by Tölken, 1985 :

Plants erect, rarely with decumbent older branches, up to 25 cm high, sparsely branched, with carnose stems 2 - 4 mm in diameter and continued into a fleshy root, rarely with peeling bark. 

 

Leaves 8 - 25 mm long, 2 - 3 (-4) mm broad, pointed, spreading with old leaves remaining attached to stems; sheath 1.5 - 2 mm long.

 

Inflorescence an Irregularly branched thyrse with several (rarely only one) dichasia, peduncle distinct with 2 - 3 pairs of bracts without flowers

 

Flowers : Corolla 1-2 mm long, white, petals scarcely ridged, anthers brown.

 

Flowering time : Mid-summer to autumn.

Cytology : 2n = 16

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