Crassula cymbiformis Toelken

Perennial shrublets up to 0.2 m high when flowering, moderately branched with stout decumbent branches, leaves more or less clearly four-ranked, old ones wearing off soon. Leaves obovate-oblong below, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, rarely lanceolate above, (15-)40-80(-95) x 15-25(-32) mm, acute to acuminate, with broad base almost auriculate, dorsiventrally compressed and distinctly cymbiform, fleshy, glabrous except for fine irregular marginal cilia, green often tinged red. Inflorescence a terminal flat-topped to irregularly branched thyrse with relatively large bracts, with pedicels 3-6 mm long, with glabrous peduncle covered with leaf-like bracts gradually decreasing upwards. Calyx: lobes linear-triangular, c. 1 mm long, obtuse to rounded, rarely acute, glabrous except for occasional marginal teeth, fleshy, green tinged red. Corolla tubular, fused basally for about 0.5 mm, white; lobes lanceolate to elliptic, 2.5-4 mm long, acute to slightly hooded, spreading to recurved later. Stamens with brown to black anthers. Squamae transversely oblong-cuneate, 0.4-0.5 x 0.5-0.7 mm, truncate to slightly emarginate, fleshy, white to pale yellow. Flowering period is insufficiently known.