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Crassula colorata acuminata (Crassula colorata acuminata)

Description

Erect or decumbent perennial or annual with stems to 20 cm long, branched, basal branches wiry-woody, not articulated.Leaves narrow-lanceolate, 4-10 mm long, 1-3 mm wide, often grey-brown, rarely reddish; sessile.Inflorescence a spike-like thyrsoid or panicle, pedicels 1-10 mm long in fruit. Flowers mainly 4-merous. Calyx lobes 1.5-3 mm long. Corolla pale yellow to red, lobes 1-2 mm long. Carpel scales narrow-cuneate to T-shaped. Follicles dehiscing by an apical pore or a longitudinal slit; seeds 2.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum:

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Saxifragales

            • Family: Crassulaceae

              • Genus: Crassula