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3168.000 Crassula
Description of the genus
Annual or perennial succulent herbs, subshrubs or shrubs with succulent leaves. Leaves opposite, usually decussate, the lowest usually rosulate, free or ± connate in a sheath, usually simple, undivided and entire. Flowers usually 5-merous, usually small, not showy, in cymes which are arranged in axillary clusters, thyrses, corymb-like inflorescences or with 1(-2) flowers in the leaf axils. Sepals free or connate at base. Corolla usually white, sometimes turning brown when dry; petals connate at base into a tube. Stamens as many as petals. Carpels free or connate at base. Worldwide: 200 species, almost cosmopolitan. Mozambique: 22 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| alba Forssk. var. alba | M | Description, Image |
| alba Forssk. var. parvisepala (Schönland) Toelken | M | |
| alsinoides (Hook. f.) Engl. | MS | Description, Image |
| alticola R. Fern.[NrEnd] | MS | Description, Image |
| capitella Thunb. subsp. nodulosa (Schönland) Toelken | MS | Description, Image |
| expansa Dryand. subsp. expansa | GI | Description, Image |
| expansa Dryand. subsp. fragilis (Baker) Tölken var. fragilis | MS,M | Description, Image |
| globularioides Britten | Z | Image |
| lanceolata (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Endl. ex Walp. subsp. lanceolata | T,GI | |
| lanceolata (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Endl. ex Walp. subsp. transvaalensis (Kuntze) Toelken | MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| leachii R. Fern.[End] | MS | |
| maputensis R. Fern.[NrEnd] | M | |
| morrumbalensis R. Fern.[End] | Z | |
| ovata (Mill.) Druce | M | Description, Image |
| perfoliata L. var. heterotricha (Schinz) Toelken | M | |
| sarcocaulis Eckl. & Zeyh. subsp. sarcocaulis | MS | Description, Image |
| setulosa Harv. var. rubra (N.E. Br.) Howley | N | |
| setulosa Harv. var. setulosa | MS | Description, Image |
| swaziensis Schönland subsp. swaziensis var. swaziensis | T,MS,M | Description, Image |
| swaziensis Schönland subsp. swaziensis var. guruensis R. Fern. | Z | |
| vaginata Eckl. & Zeyh. | N,T,MS | Description, Image |
| zombensis Baker f.[NrEnd] | Z |
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Flora of Malawi: Crassula
Flora of Zambia: Crassula
Flora of Zimbabwe: Crassula
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Crassula
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): CrassulaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Crassula
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Crassula
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Crassula
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Crassula
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Crassula
JSTOR Plant Science: Crassula
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Crassula
Plants of the World Online: Crassula
Tropicos: Crassula
Wikipedia: Crassula
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