Crassula foveata Van Jaarsv.

Plants proliferating from base, forming small, dense mats or clusters up to 140 mm diam. and up to 180 mm tall when in flower. Roots fibrous. Branches short, herbaceous, terete, 20-40 mm long, glabrous, lower down sparsely strigose, 1-3 mm diam., green, becoming reddish when exposed to sunlight. Leaves dorsiventrally compressed to almost subulate when fully turgid, in a loose rosette, sessile, decussately arranged, sometimes falcate and spreading, slightly recurved, becoming smaller upwards, linear-lanceolate to triangular-lanceolate, 12-44 x 37 mm, abaxial surface rounded, glabrous, green becoming reddish, pitted, adaxial surface canaliculate, becoming flat when turgid, sparsely but distinctly pitted (shallow leaf depressions); pits consisting of rounded, reddish depressions, 0.3-0.5 mm diam.; apex acute, apiculate; margin rounded, thickened, sparsely beset with recurved, translucent cilia. Inflorescence a conspicuous rounded to flat-topped thyrse, up to 180 mm high, 25-50 mm diam., bearing 1 to several dichasia, diurnal, sweetly scented; peduncle with translucent, recurved hairs and with a gradual transition from leaves to bracts, reddish; bracts ascending, spreading, upper bracts cymbiform, sparsely pitted, margin entire to sparsely ciliate. Flowers white to pale pink, buds up to 3 mm long, open flowers up to 4 mm diam.; calyx lobes triangular, 1.5 x 0.8 mm, with stout hairs at apex; corolla tubular, lobes spreading, oblong-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, up to 2 mm long, acute, white to pink. Stamens up to 1.5 mm long; anthers up to 0.1 mm long, yellowish. Squamae transversely oblong, up to 0.4 x 0.1 mm, yellowish orange; carpels and style up to 2 mm long.