Crassula capitella Thunb.

Perennials, rarely biennials up to 0.4 m high when flowering, with one to several rosettes, with leaf pairs spirally arranged and old leaves remaining attached to stems. Leaves linear-lanceolate to ovate or rarely obovate, 10-50(-120) x (3-)8-15(-20) mm, acute but often drying up from apex, more or less dorsiventrally compressed and often grooved above central vein, glabrous to hairy and usually with marginal cilia, fleshy, green to brown often tinged red or with red spots. Inflorescence usually a spike-like thyrse but sometimes with flowers more or less stalked and more or less elongated, with indistinct peduncle covered with leaf-like bracts gradually decreasing in size upwards. Calyx: lobes lanceolate to ovate or triangular, 1-3(-4) mm long, acute and sometimes tapering into a terminal hair, glabrous to hairy and usually with at least some marginal cilia, fleshy, green to reddish brown. Corolla tubular, fused basally for 0.3-0.6 mm, white, cream or sometimes tinged pink. Stamens with brown to black anthers. Squamae oblong to transversely oblong, 0.5-0.9 x 0.4-0.9 mm, truncate or emarginate, slightly constricted downwards, fleshy, white, yellow or orange.

It is a subtropical plant.