Crassula hirsuta Schönland & Baker F.

Annuals with stiffly erect branches up to 60 mm long, most parts covered with spreading hairs, more or less branched with lateral branches shorter than main one. Leaves sessile, linear-triangular, 3-8(-12) x 0.5-2 mm, acute and drawn into a stiff terminal hair, dorsiventrally flattened and often more or less boat-shaped, usually glabrous above but with spreading hairs below and with marginal cilia, slightly fleshy but leathery, green becoming reddish brown. Inflorescence a thyrse with many almost sessile dichasia, with 5-merous flowers on short pedicels. Calyx: lobes broadly triangular, 1.5 mm long, obtuse, with scattered spreading hairs and marginal cilia, carnose, green to brown. Corolla cup-to tub-shaped, scarcely fused basally, white; lobes oblong-elliptic, 1-1.5 mm long, obtuse, erect. Stamens with brown anthers. Squamae narrowly oblong-cuneate, 0.2-0.3 x 0.05-0.1 mm, truncate or rounded at apices, first abruptly, later gradually constricted downwards, almost membranous, yellow. Seeds (l-)2, released by basal circumscissile split of pericarp.