Crassula clavata N.E.Br.

Perennials, usually with several basal rosettes, sparsely or rarely much branched, with carnose to slightly woody branches, with old leaves not deciduous. Leaves oblanceolate to obovate or elliptic, rarely linear-oblanceolate, 20-40(-60) x 5-13 mm, obtuse to rounded, flat or slightly convex above, very much convex below, recurved and more or less flat on the ground, rarely stiffly erect, glabrous, rarely with short hairs and/or marginal cilia, usually purplish red, rarely yellowish green or green. Inflorescence an elongate thyrse with many dichasia (i.e. part-inflorescences are produced by 3-5 nodes of central axis), with peduncle 0.1-0.2(-0.3) m long, glabrous or with fine hairs. Calyx: lobes oblong-triangular, 1.5-2(-2.5) mm long, obtuse, with fine hairs or papillae and short marginal cilia, fleshy, green to red. Corolla tubular to almost cylindrical, fused at base for 0.8-1 mm, cream to pale yellow; lobes panduriform, 2.5-3.5 mm long, each with almost spherical dorsal appendage in terminal position and with membranous apex on inside. Stamens with yellow anthers. Squamae oblong-cuneate, 0.6-1 x 0.4-0.6 mm, truncate to slightly emarginate, usually at first abruptly, later gradually constricted towards base, fleshy, yellow to orange.