Crassula mollis Thunb.

Perennials forming shrublets up to 0.5 m high, much branched, with woody spreading branches, with old leaves deciduous. Leaves linear-elliptic, 10-20(-30) x 2-3 mm, sharply acute, more or less flat above and very convex below and about as thick as broad, shortly velvety, grey-green to brownish grey. Inflorescence usually a round-topped thyrse with 3 to many globular dichasia (i.e. globular part-inflorescences are produced from one to two nodes of main axis), with peduncle 0.15-0.25 m long and covered with short erect hairs. Calyx: lobes triangular, 2-2.5 mm long, bluntly acute, fleshy particularly towards apices, with fine erect hairs and marginal cilia, grey-green tinged reddish brown. Corolla tubular, almost cylindrical, fused basally for c. 1 mm, cream; lobes panduriform, 2.5-3.5 mm long, with elongate-ellipsoid appendage in terminal position and without membranous petal apex on inside. Stamens with black anthers. Squamae oblong, 0.6-0.8 x 0.3-0.4 mm, slightly emarginate and somewhat constricted downwards, fleshy, pale yellow. Flowering period: December-January (February).