Crassula tomentosa Thunb.

Perennials or biennials 0.1-0.6 m high when flowering, with one to few, rarely many rosettes, with leaf pairs spirally arranged but often apparently two-ranked when young and with old leaves remaining attached to stems. Leaves oblong-elliptic, oblanceolate, obovate to orbicular, (5-)10-80(-100) x 5-25(-35) mm, acute, rounded or truncate, dorsiventrally flattened and scarcely convex, glabrous, tomentose to rugose and with marginal cilia, green to grey. Inflorescence a spike-like thyrse with numerous sessile flowers in dense clusters, with more or less indistinct peduncle covered with many bracts decreasing in size upwards. Calyx: lobes usually broadly triangular, 2.5-3 mm long, obtuse, covered with spreading or recurved hairs and marginal cilia, fleshy, green. Corolla tubular, fused basally for 1-1.5 mm, off-white to pale yellow; lobes oblong-panduriform, 2.5-4.5 mm long, drawn into a blunt beak, spreading or slightly recurved. Stamens with black anthers. Squamae oblong to square or rarely transversely oblong, 0.3-1.2 x (0.2-)0.3-1 mm, truncate and more or less constricted downwards, scarcely fleshy, yellow.