Crassula intermedia Schönland

Perennials up to 0.2 m high when flowering, with few to many rosettes with 4-ranked leaves very closely adpressed to each other, old leaves remaining attached to stems. Leaves obovate to orbicular, (8-)10-30 x 10-30 mm, with rounded apices but usually mucronate, dorsiventrally flattened, scarcely fleshy, glabrous except for dense row of recurved cilia, green to dark green. Inflorescence an elongate to round-topped thyrse with one to many dichasia each forming a dense cluster of sessile flowers, with distinct peduncle 40-150 mm long. Calyx: lobes ovate, 1-1.5 mm long, with rounded apices, glabrous except for long spreading cilia, scarcely fleshy, green tinged red or brown. Corolla tubular, fused basally for 0.2-0.4 mm, white often tinged red; lobes obovate or oblong-obovate, 2-2.5 mm long; with rounded apices, erect and usually scarcely recurved. Stamens with yellow anthers. Squamae narrowly oblong, 0.7-1 x c. 0.2 mm, truncate to slightly emarginate, gradually constricted downwards, scarcely fleshy, pale yellow or white. Carpels with short reflexed styles.