Crassula namaquensis Schönland & Baker F.

Perennials with basal rosettes, more or less branched, with old leaves not deciduous. Leaves oblong, elliptic to oblanceolate, (4-)10-35 x (2-)3-10 mm, acute to obtuse, flat to somewhat convex above and usually very convex below to almost terete, densely covered with coarse recurved and adpressed hairs and without marginal cilia, grey-green to blue-green. Inflorescence a toyrse with one to several spherical dichasia, with peduncle 0.02-0.1(-0.14) m long and covered with recurved adpressed hairs. Calyx: lobes oblong-triangular, 2-3 mm long, with rounded apices, with recurved hairs and marginal cilia, green to grey-green. Corolla tubular, fused basally for 0.6-1 mm, white, cream to yellow; lobes oblanceolate to almost panduriform, rarely narrowly elliptic, 3-8(-10) mm long, acute to acuminate and drawn into a beak-like apex without dorsal appendage. Stamens with black anthers. Squamae oblong-cuneate, 0.7-1.1 x 0.2-0.6 mm, entire or slightly emarginate, fleshy, yellow to orange.