Crassula tetragona L.

Perennials with erect, decumbent or prostrate branches up to 1 m high, usually moderately branched, with woody or carnose stems, usually smooth, rarely with papillae, with peeling or flaking bark on old stems, with old leaves deciduous or rarely not. Leaves lanceolate, 8-80(-50) x 1-4(-5) mm, more or less acute, dorsiventrally compressed to terete, green or often with grey bloom. Inflorescence a thyrse or flat-topped dichasium with few to numerous shortly pedicellate flowers, with peduncle 10-150 mm long and with (0)1-3 pairs of bracts without flowers. Calyx: lobes triangular, 1-2 mm long, bluntly acute, somewhat fleshy, glabrous, green or tinged reddish brown. Corolla tubular, fused at the base, 0.3-0.5 mm, cream or rarely white; lobes elliptic to oblanceolate, 1-2(-3) mm long, bluntly acute and with a more or less distinct dorsal ridge, more or less recurved. Stamens with brown anthers. Squamae transversely oblong to almost square, 0.2-0.4 x 0.4-0.6 mm, truncate or emarginate, usually somewhat constricted downwards, fleshy, yellow.