Crassula planifolia Schönland

Perennials with erect to decumbent branches up to 0.3 m long, with few carnose branches, with flaking bark on older stems, with old leaves deciduous. Leaves elliptic to lanceolate, 20-35(-40) x 4-10 mm, usually sharply acute, dorsiventrally flattened to slightly convex on both surfaces, glabrous, dark green. Inflorescence a round-topped thyrse but often irregularly branched and with numerous flowers; peduncle 30-60 mm long and usually with one pair of bracts without flowers. Calyx: lobes triangular, 0.5(-1) mm long, bluntly acute, somewhat ridged, fleshy, glabrous, green. Corolla tubular, fused at base for c. 0.2 mm, white to cream; lobes oblong, 1-1.5 mm long, rounded, with dorsal ridge, with apices slightly recurved. Stamens with brown anthers. Squamae transversely oblong to almost square, 0.3-0.4 x 0.4-0.6 mm, usually somewhat emarginate, considerably constricted towards base, fleshy, pale yellow.