Crassula minuta Toelken

Species

Angiosperms > Saxifragales > Crassulaceae > Crassula

Characteristics

Annuals with erect branches 10-30 mm long and usually more or less wiry, glabrous. Leaves sessile, linear-elliptic, 1-2 (-3) x 0.5-1 mm, usually obtuse, more or less flat above, convex below, glabrous, fleshy, green to reddish brown. Inflorescence a thyrse with one to few dichasia, with 4-merous flowers shortly pedicellate. Calyx: lobes elliptic-lanceolate, 1-1.5 mm long, bluntly acute, glabrous, green to reddish brown. Corolla more or less cup-shaped, scarcely fused basally, white or cream and often tinged red. Stamens with yellow (?) anthers. Squamae transversely oblong and abruptly cuneate, 0.4-0.5 x 0.5-0.6 mm, truncate, abruptly constricted downwards, almost membranous, pale yellow or white. Seeds 2-4, released through apical pore of follicle.
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Annual, with erect, wiry branches, up to 30 mm tall. Leaves sessile, linear-elliptic, dorsiventrally flattened, 1-2 x 0.5-1 mm. Flowers solitary in axils of terminal leaves, ± cup-shaped, petals 1-1.5 mm long, white or cream, tinged red.
Like C. decumbens but flowers solitary in axils.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.03
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Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 7-8
Soil acidity -
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
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Germination luminosity light
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Distribution

Crassula minuta world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:273300-1
WFO ID wfo-0000625225
COL ID Z7DM
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Tillaea minuta Crassula minuta