Crassula biplanata Haw.

Perennials with erect or decumbent branches 0.15-0.2(-0.3) m high, with branches either slightly woody or carnose, usually covered with short papillae on internodes, rarely with peeling to flaking bark on old stems, with old leaves usually deciduous. Leaves lanceolate, 8-15 x 1-2(-3) mm, subulate, more or less dorsiventrally compressed to terete, dark green but often covered with a thick bloom. Inflorescence usually one flat-topped dichasium with few to many shortly pedicellate, densely clustered flowers; peduncle (15-)50-150(-180) mm, one or two pairs of bracts without flowers. Calyx: lobes triangular, 1-2 mm long (usually less than one third as long as corolla), pointed, slightly fleshy, green. Corolla tubular, fused at base 0.2-0.4 mm, white to cream; lobes narrowly oblong-elliptic, 4-5(-6) mm long, bluntly acute, with dorsal ridge, with apices slightly recurved. Stamens with brown anthers. Squamae transversely oblong, 0.2-0.3 x 0.4-0.6 mm, slightly emarginate, constricted downwards, somewhat fleshy, yellow. Flowering period: February, March (April).