Crassula maputensis R.Fern.

An annual (or also perennial), diffuse, somewhat fleshy, completely glabrous herb. Stems up to 17(28) cm long, procumbent, subdichotomously branched, rigid and sometimes subligneous towards the base, rooting at the lower nodes; branches up to 18 cm long, prostrate, ascending or erect, slender, herbaceous and rather leafy towards the extremity; lower internodes up to 3-5 cm long, the others successively shorter. Leaves 0.6-2.5 x 0.15-0.7 cm, spathulate or oblong-spathulate to elliptic or oblong-elliptic, obtuse or nearly so at the apex, the narrowest ones nearly acute, entire, narrowing towards a subpetiolar base or rarely contracted below, slightly connate, flat, neither lineolate nor pellucid-punctate, dark green and membranous or nearly translucent on drying. Flowers 5-merous, solitary and axillary usually all along the stem and branches; pedicels capillary, 7-40 mm long. Calyx 1.25-2 mm long, up to half as long as corolla; sepals oblong-linear, obtuse, slightly connate at the base. Corolla 3.5-4 mm long, white; petals 1.5-2 mm broad, oblong-elliptic or obovate, concave, suberect. Stamens more than half as long as corolla; filaments 2.2-2.5 mm long; anthers c. 0.25 mm long, yellow. Follicles 2-2.5 mm long, tapering into the c. 1 mm long styles. Seeds 0.3-0.4 mm, longitudinally lineolate-ribbed.