Crassula garibina Marloth & Schönland

Perennials usually decumbent with main branches up to 0.25 m long, rarely small shrublets with spreading branches and usually with swollen base, with brittle branches and leaves, with old leaves not deciduous. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 20-40(-50) x 3-6(-10) mm, abruptly constricted into usually acute apices, flat or slightly convex above but strongly convex below, curved upwards from base, glabrous, glabrescent or covered with fine hairs with globular apices, grey-green becoming dull brown, rarely yellowish green. Inflorescence a rounded thyrse with one to several stalked dichasia with pedicellate flowers; peduncle 20-40 mm long and covered with recurved hairs; flowers often half-hidden by leaves below. Calyx: lobes triangular, 1.5-2.5 mm long, usually sharply acute, with recurved hairs and marginal cilia, rarely glabrous, fleshy, green to grey-green. Corolla tubular, fused basally for up to 1.5 mm, off-white to cream; lobes oblong-oblanceolate, 3-5(-6) mm long, acute or obtuse, each with dorsal appendage. Stamens with brown anthers. Squamae transversely oblong, 0.2-0.5 x 0.4-0.8 mm, truncate or emarginate, slightly constricted downwards, fleshy, yellow.