Crassula whiteheadii Harv.

Perennials forming shrublets rarely higher than 0.15 m, usually much branched, branches covered with short recurved and adpressed hairs when young and with rough flaking bark when older, old leaves deciduous. Leaves narrowly lanceolate, 3-5 x 1-1.5 mm, sharply acute, flat or slightly convex above, strongly convex below, with minute papillae and marginal cilia when young, green to brown. Inflorescence an irregular thyrse with one or several cymose clusters of usually sessile flowers. Calyx: lobes lanceolate-triangular, 2.5-3 mm long, acute, covered with minute papillae or with few scattered hairs and with few slightly recurved cilia, green. Corolla tubular to urn-shaped, fused basally for 1-1.3 mm, white often tinged red and fading to cream; lobes oblong to subpanduriform, 3-4 mm long, obtuse and each with prominent dorsal appendage, usually scarcely recurved. Stamens with brown anthers. Squamae oblong, 0.6-0.8 x 0.3-0.5 mm, truncate, slightly constricted downwards, almost membranous, orange.