Crassula sericea Schönland

Perennial, with erect branches, 50-200 mm tall, ± woody at base with peeling bark. Leaves sessile, oblanceolate to obovate, rounded and swollen but slightly flattened above, 10-35 x 6-35 mm, greyish, densely tomentose or papillose. Flowers in several, ± widely spaced, dense, spherical heads, on a tomentose peduncle 40-100 mm long, tubular, petals 3-4 mm long, fused in lower 1 mm, with tips blunt or acute, cream to pale yellow.