Crassula elegans Schönland & Baker F.

Perennials up to 80 mm high but usually with short stems and much branched, with old leaves completely shrivelled. Leaves ovate, rarely lanceolate, 5-15 x 4-8 (-10) mm, obtuse rarely acute, broadly triangular in section, closely packed so that internodes are rarely visible between them and rarely obviously 4-ranked, glabrous, with fine hairs or with coarse rounded papillae, green, brownish red to deep red. Inflorescence a loose rounded thyrse with peduncle (15-) 25-60 mm long, covered with recurved hairs. Calyx: lobes triangular, 1-1.5 mm long, obtuse, covered with fine hairs and marginal cilia, fleshy, green to red. Corolla tubular, fused basally for 0.3-0.5 mm, cream or white fading to brown; lobes oblong-elliptic, 2-2.5 mm long, obtuse, spreading to recurved. Stamens with brown anthers. Squamae transversely oblong to square, 0.4-0.6 x 0.5-0.7 mm, slightly emarginate, cuneate, fleshy, yellow.

It is a subtropical plant.

The roots are used as a yeast.