Crassula peploides Harv.

Perennials with several terminal rosettes on fleshy stems which are continued into fleshy roots, with old leaves not deciduous. Leaves linear-triangular, (3-)5-15 x 2-3 mm, usually acute, scarcely broadened towards base, almost terete or with upper surface more or less flattened, glabrous or sometimes minutely papillose, green often tinged red or reddish brown. Inflorescence: several dichasia often ending in monochasia with pedicellate flowers, with peduncle of ten indistinct or up to 40 mm long. Calyx: lobes linear, 2-3 mm long and usually of different lengths, abruptly constricted into blunt apices, about triangular in section, fleshy, glabrous, green tinged more or less red. Corolla star-shaped, fused at base for up to 2 mm, white tinged red; lobes elliptic to obovate, 3-4.5 mm long, each with rounded apex and faintly ridged but without dorsal appendage, spreading. Stamens with yellow anthers. Squamae transversely oblong to square, 0.5-0.7 x 0.6-0.9 mm, truncate and slightly constricted downwards, fleshy, yellow to red.