Crassula pellucida L.

Species

Angiosperms > Saxifragales > Crassulaceae > Crassula

Characteristics

Perennials, rarely annuals, with decumbent or prostrate stems up to 0.6 m long, more or less branched, with old leaves not deciduous. Leaves usually sessile, rarely with petiole up to 8 mm long; lamina lanceolate, ovate to elliptic or oblanceolate, 10-25(-35) x (3-)5-12(-20) mm, usually sharply acute, often apiculate or cuspidate, more or less abruptly constricted into a cuneate to subpetiolate base, dorsiventrally flattened, usually glabrous, green sometimes with brown stripes and with colourless or red margin. Inflorescence a terminal dichasium more or less fascicled or reduced to a single flower, without distinct peduncle and often half hidden by terminal leaves. Calyx: lobes linear-triangular, 2.5-5(-6) mm long, each sharply acute and drawn into a colourless point, glabrous, fleshy but often with membranous margin, green to almost colourless. Corolla star-shaped, scarcely fused at base, white often tinged pink; lobes elliptic to oblanceolate-oblong, 3-5 mm long, sharply acute, without dorsal appendage. Stamens with white to purple anthers. Squamae transversely oblong, 0.1-0.2 x 0.3-0.5 mm, truncate, slightly constricted towards base, slightly fleshy, pale yellow to white.
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Perennial, succulent herb, decumbent or prostrate branches ± 0.01-0.25 m long, old leaves not deciduous, adventitious roots at nodes, root swollen. Leaves sessile, cuneate to subpetiolate, constricted to base and fused in pairs, lanceolate-ovate to elliptic, 10-25 x 5-12 mm, sharply acute, glabrous, green, sometimes with brown stripes and colourless margins. Inflorescence 1-3 terminal dichasia appearing umbellate, fascicled or a single flower. Calyx sharply acute, colourless point, fleshy with membranous margins, green to colourless. Corolla star-shaped, scarcely fused, white tinged pink; lobes elliptic to oblanceolate, 3-5 mm long, sharply acute, without dorsal appendage.
Sprawling perennial, sometimes annual. Leaves opposite, mostly sessile, elliptic to oblanceolate, margin colourless or red. Flowers in terminal clusters, sometimes solitary, stellate, white, often tinged pink, petals 3-5 mm long.
A sprawling herb. The stems can be 60 cm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Mature height (meter) 0.05 - 0.15
Root system adventitious-root
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

It is a tropical plant.
Light 7-9
Soil humidity 1-3
Soil texture 6-7
Soil acidity 2-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

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

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings.
Mode cuttings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity light
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -7
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Crassula pellucida world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:273372-1
WFO ID wfo-0000625323
COL ID Z7FW
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Crassula pellucida Crassula marginata Gomara pellucida Crassula diffusa Crassula pellucida subsp. pellucida

Lower taxons

Crassula pellucida subsp. brachypetala Crassula pellucida subsp. marginalis Crassula pellucida subsp. spongiosa