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Crassula peculiaris (Toelken) Toelken & Wickens

Family: CRASSULACEAE

Publication: Fl. S. Africa [ed. L.E.W. Codd et al.] 14: 123 (1985)

Description

Crassula peculiaris (C. expansa subsp. peculiaris) is similar to Crassula expansa but differing in habit and locality and in its papillose seeds. The thin prostrate stems up to 300 mm form a mat, leaves petiolate, ovate to elliptic, 3-8 mm long, hirsute. Corolla is cup-shaped, white.

Origin and Habitat

Crassula peculiaris occours only in the Sv. artberg Pass north of Oudtshoorn in the Western Cape, at an altitude of 1500 m.

Bibliography

Major references and further lectures:

  1. Doreen Court “Succulent Flora of Southern Africa” CRC Press, 01 June 2000</p>