Crassula subulata L.

Perennial shrublets 0.2-0.4(-l) m high, with few often fastigiate branches, old leaves not deciduous. Leaves subulate, linear-lanceolate, rarely narrowly elliptic, 5-20(-40) x 1-2(-4) mm, dorsiventrally compressed to almost terete, often with stout marginal cilia or papillae, grey-green to dull brown. Inflorescence a rounded or capitate thyrse usually with several dischasia, each with a number of flowers, with indistinct peduncle. Calyx: lobes oblong-triangular, 2.5-3.5 mm long, usually bluntly acute, glabrous or rarely with marginal teeth, fleshy, green to brown. Corolla tubular, fused at base for c. 0.5 mm, cream; lobes elliptic to almost panduriform, 3-4.5 mm long, acuminate to aculeate without distinct dorsal appendage, erect to slightly recurved at apices. Stamens with yellow anthers. Squamae oblong, 0.8-1 x 0.3-0.4 mm, usually truncate, slightly constricted downwards, fleshy, yellow.