Crassula compacta Schönland

Perennials or annuals up to 0.2 m high when flowering, with one or two, rarely several rosettes, with leaves spirally arranged and old ones remaining attached to stems. Leaves ovate, elliptic or obovate, (10-)15-35(-45) x 10-25 mm, acute or obtuse, dorsiventrally flattened, glabrous except for recurved cilia, green to reddish brown. Inflorescence a spike-like, rarely elongate thyrse with more or less sessile dichasia and flowers, with indistinct peduncle covered with bracts gradually decreasing upwards. Calyx: lobes narrowly triangular, 2-3 mm long, acute, usually glabrous except for irregularly arranged cilia, somewhat fleshy, green. Corolla tubular, fused basally for 0.2-0.5 mm, white or cream; lobes oblong-obovate, 4.5-5.5 mm long, obtuse, erect to slightly recurved. Stamens with black anthers. Squamae transversely oblong, 0.3-0.4 x 0.5-0.8 mm, truncate, slightly constricted downwards, fleshy, yellow.