Crassula rudolfi Schönland & Baker F.

Perennials forming shrubs up to 0.8 m high, usually much branched or sometimes scrambling and then less branched, branches covered with recurved adpressed hairs when young but with rough and flaking bark when old, old leaves deciduous. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, 8-15(-20) x 2(-3) mm, acute, flat to slightly convex above and strongly so below, with minute papillae when young and spreading, often slightly recurved marginal cilia, green to glaucous-green or brown. Inflorescence usually a somewhat rounded thyrse with several dichasia of more or less sessile flowers often borne some distance apart. Calyx: lobes oblong-triangular, 1.5-2 mm long, bluntly acute, covered with minute papillae and with spreading but slightly recurved cilia, green. Corolla tubular to urn-shaped, fused basally for c. 0.8 mm, white fading to cream; lobes oblong to subpanduriform, 2-3 mm long, with bluntly pointed apices each with prominent dorsal appendage, more or less recurved. Stamens with black anthers. Squamae oblong, 0.7-0.9 x 0.3-0.4 mm, truncate, slightly constricted downwards, almost membranous, yellow to orange.