Crassula dependens Bolus

Perennials with decumbent branches up to 0.2 m long, thin and wiry or carnose, much branched, usually covered with erect hair-like papillae at least on young branches, rarely with peeling bark on old stems, with old leaves not deciduous. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 5-15(-20) x 1-2(-3) mm, sharply acute, dorsiventrally compressed or slightly convex above or below, glabrous, green to brown, rarely red. Inflorescence an almost flat-topped dichasium, rarely thyrsoid with several dichasia, with few to numerous flowers, usually without distinct peduncle. Calyx: lobes narrowly triangular, 2-3(-4) mm long and often of unequal length, glabrous, ridged and somewhat fleshy, green or tinged red. Corolla tubular, fused at base 0.1-0.2 mm, white or cream; lobes lanceolate-oblong, (3-)4-5(-6) mm long, acute, with dorsal ridge, recurved. Stamens with brown anthers. Squamae tranversely oblong, 0.2-0.4 x 0.4-0.6 mm, truncate or slightly emarginate, scarcely tapering, fleshy, yellow. Flowering period: (December) January-March.