Crassula pallens Schönland & Baker F.

Shrublets up to 0.5 m high, usually much branched, branches erect with recurved adpressed hairs when young and with smooth almost white bark later, with old leaves deciduous. Leaves narrowly to rarely broadly lanceolate, 10-20(-35) x 2-4(-7) mm, usually acute, flat or slightly concave above, more or less convex below, with minute papillae over both surfaces and often with a few horny teeth on margin towards base at least when young, but glabrous when mature, usually glaucous-green. Inflorescence an often irregularly branched thyrse with several dichasia, each forming a dense cluster of almost sessile flowers. Calyx: lobes triangular to rarely lanceolate 2.5-3 mm long, acute, rarely obtuse, covered with minute papillae but without cilia, glaucous-green. Corolla tubular, fused at base for 0.8-1 mm, white fading to cream or brown; lobes oblong to subpanduriform, 2.5-3.5 mm long, with bluntly pointed apices each with prominent dorsal appendage, more or less recurved. Stamens with black anthers. Squamae oblong-cuneate, 0.9-1.2 x 0.7-0.9 mm, truncate, considerably constricted downwards, slightly fleshy, yellow.