- Family: Crassulaceae J.St.-Hil.
Crassula L.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves opposite, free or united at the base to form a sheath around the stem, entire
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers in terminal cymes or in 1–few-flowered axillary clusters, (3–)4–5(–8)-merous
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Sepals free or slightly united
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals usually slightly united at the base, white or reddish
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens as many as petals
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Nectaries
- Nectary scales usually very small
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Follicles with 1–many seeds.
- Distribution
- About 200 species, the majority in South Africa, some also in Arabia, Madagascar, Europe, America and Australia.
[FTEA]
Crassulaceae, G.E. Wickens. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1987
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual or perennial herbs, rarely shrubs, frequently fleshy
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves very rarely absent, decussate, free or ± connate at the base to form a sheath around the stem, usually sessile, almost always entire, flattish, semiterete or subterete, glabrous, pubescent papillose or scabrid, margin smooth, ciliate or papillate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence usually corymbose, subumbellate, capitate or thyrsoid, sometimes an axillary fascicle or flowers rarely solitary
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers isomerous, 3–4- or 5-merous, rarely 6- or 9-merous
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx usually much shorter than the corolla Sepals free or slightly united at the base
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Petals usually slightly united at the base, white or red, rarely yellow or bluish; lobes stellate, erect, patent or connivent, apex often dorsally mucronate, the mucro small, hemispherical or cylindrical, usually blunt or conspicuous, ovoid or subglobular
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens equal in number to the petals, episepalous, or in gamopetalous corollas affixed to the tube; filaments often subulate, sometimes flattened; anthers ovate or oblong, sometimes with conspicuous connective
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Nectaries
- Nectary scales usually very small, narrowly to broadly spathulate to obcuneate or square, rounded and slightly emarginate at the apex, rarely stipitate
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Carpels
- Carpels free or slightly united at the base; ovules numerous, rarely 1–2; styles often subulate, narrowly cylindrical or filamentous, often as long as the ovaries, or short and relatively thick; stigmata small, terminal or more rarely subdorsal.
[FZ]
Crassulaceae, R. Fernandes. Flora Zambesiaca 7:1. 1983
- Morphology General Habit
- Annual or perennial succulent herbs, sometimes with a tuber-like root, or undershrubs or shrubs with ± woody root-stock and succulent usually ± fleshy leaves.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves opposite, usually decussate, the lowermost frequently rosulate, free or ± connate in a sheath, usually simple, undivided and entire, thin to ± thick, flat, terete, semiterete, ovoid, etc.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
- Flowers (3-4)5(6-9)-merous, isomerous, usually small and not showy, in cymes arranged either in dense subsessile or pedunculate axillary clusters sometimes forming thyrsoid inflorescences, or in corymb-like axillary or terminal loose or ± dense inflorescences, sometimes 1(2) flowers in the leaf-axils.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
- Calyx usually shorter than the corolla, with the sepals free or slightly connate at the base, appressed to the corolla, ± succulent.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Corolla
- Corolla usually white or whitish turning orange or brownish-red when dry, sometimes red or carmine, rarely bright yellow, persistent; petals erect or stellate, connate at the base into a ± short tube.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamens free or with the lower part of the filaments connate with the corolla-tube, alternipetalous; anthers ovate or oblong, sometimes nearly circular.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Carpels
- Carpels free or connate at the base, oblong or obovoid, attenuate towards or contracted into a ± short usually terminal style, sometimes the styles nearly absent and stigmas subdorsal, completely glabrous or papillose along the suture; ovules numerous or sometimes 1-4.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Nectaries
- Scales shorter than the carpels, hyaline or reddish-brown or rose, thin, narrowly to broadly spathulate or obovate or cuneate.
Native to:
Alabama, Alaska, Algeria, Amur, Angola, Antipodean Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Argentina South, Arizona, Arkansas, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Belgium, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil South, Brazil South, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Burundi, Buryatiya, California, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Central African Repu, Central European Rus, Chad, Chatham Is., Chile Central, Chile North, Chile South, China South-Central, Colombia, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Costa Rica, Crozet Is., Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Is., Finland, France, Free State, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Iceland, Idaho, India, Inner Mongolia, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kenya, Kerguelen, Khabarovsk, Korea, Kriti, Kuwait, KwaZulu-Natal, Lebanon-Syria, Lesotho, Libya, Louisiana, Macquarie Is., Madagascar, Madeira, Maine, Malawi, Manchuria, Marion-Prince Edward, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest, Minnesota, Mississippi, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Newfoundland, Nigeria, Norfolk Is., North European Russi, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Queensland, Québec, Rwanda, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Selvagens, Sicilia, Sicilia, Socotra, Somalia, South Australia, South Carolina, South European Russi, Spain, Sudan, Swaziland, Sweden, Tadzhikistan, Tanzania, Tanzania, Tasmania, Texas, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Utah, Venezuela, Vermont, Victoria, Washington, West Himalaya, Western Australia, Western Sahara, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Yukon, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Extinct in:
Baltic States, Delaware, Poland
Introduced into:
China North-Central, Hawaii, Ireland, Juan Fernández Is., St.Helena, Tristan da Cunha
- Crassula acinaciformis Schinz
- Crassula alata (Viv.) A.Berger
- Crassula alba Forssk.
- Crassula alcicornis Schönland
- Crassula alpestris L.f.
- Crassula alsinoides (Hook.f.) Engl.
- Crassula alstonii Marloth
- Crassula alticola R.Fern.
- Crassula ammophila Toelken
- Crassula ankaratrensis Desc.
- Crassula anso-lerouxiae van Jaarsv.
- Crassula aphylla Schönland & Baker f.
- Crassula aquatica (L.) Schönland
- Crassula arborescens (Mill.) Willd.
- Crassula atropurpurea (Haw.) D.Dietr.
- Crassula aurusbergensis G.Will.
- Crassula ausensis Hutchison
- Crassula badspoortensis van Jaarsv.
- Crassula barbata Thunb.
- Crassula barklyi N.E.Br.
- Crassula basaltica Brullo & Siracusa
- Crassula bergioides Harv.
- Crassula bevilanensis Desc.
- Crassula biplanata Haw.
- Crassula brachystachya Toelken
- Crassula brevifolia Harv.
- Crassula calcarea N.H.G.Jacobsen
- Crassula campestris (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Endl.
- Crassula capensis (L.) Baill.
- Crassula capitella Thunb.
- Crassula ciliata L.
- Crassula clavata N.E.Br.
- Crassula closiana (Gay) Reiche
- Crassula coccinea L.
- Crassula colligata Toelken
- Crassula colorata (Nees) Ostenf.
- Crassula columella Marloth & Schönland
- Crassula columnaris L.f.
- Crassula compacta Schönland
- Crassula congesta N.E.Br.
- Crassula connata (Ruiz & Pav.) A.Berger
- Crassula cooperi Regel
- Crassula corallina L.f.
- Crassula cordata Thunb.
- Crassula cordifolia Baker
- Crassula cotyledonis Thunb.
- Crassula cremnophila van Jaarsv. & A.E.van Wyk
- Crassula crenulata Thunb.
- Crassula cultrata L.
- Crassula cymbiformis Toelken
- Crassula cymosa P.J.Bergius
- Crassula deceptor Schönland & Baker f.
- Crassula decidua Schönland
- Crassula decumbens Thunb.
- Crassula deltoidea Thunb.
- Crassula dentata Thunb.
- Crassula dependens Bolus
- Crassula depressa (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Toelken
- Crassula dichotoma L.
- Crassula dodii Schönland & Baker f.
- Crassula drummondii (Torr. & A.Gray) Fedde
- Crassula elatinoides (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Friedrich
- Crassula elegans Schönland & Baker f.
- Crassula elsieae Toelken
- Crassula ericoides Haw.
- Crassula exilis Harv.
- Crassula expansa Aiton
- Crassula exserta (Reader) Ostenf.
- Crassula extrorsa Toelken
- Crassula fallax Friedrich
- Crassula fascicularis Lam.
- Crassula filiformis (Eckl. & Zeyh.) D.Dietr.
- Crassula flanaganii Schönland & Baker f.
- Crassula flava L.
- Crassula foveata van Jaarsv.
- Crassula fragarioides van Jaarsv. & Helme
- Crassula fusca Herre
- Crassula garibina Marloth & Schönland
- Crassula gemmifera Friedrich
- Crassula globularioides Britten
- Crassula glomerata P.J.Bergius
- Crassula grammanthoides (Schönl.) Toelken
- Crassula granvikii Mildbr.
- Crassula grisea Schönland
- Crassula helmsii (Kirk) Cockayne
- Crassula hemisphaerica Thunb.
- Crassula hirsuta Schönland & Baker f.
- Crassula hirtipes Harv.
- Crassula humbertii Desc.
- Crassula hunua A.P.Druce
- Crassula inandensis Schönland & Baker f.
- Crassula inanis Thunb.
- Crassula intermedia Schönland
- Crassula kirkii (Allan) A.P.Druce & Given
- Crassula lactea Aiton
- Crassula lanuginosa Harv.
- Crassula lasiantha E.Mey. ex Harv.
- Crassula latibracteata Toelken
- Crassula leachii R.Fern.
- Crassula longipes (Rose) M.Bywater & Wickens
- Crassula macowaniana Schönland & Baker f.
- Crassula manaia A.P.Druce & Sykes
- Crassula maputensis R.Fern.
- Crassula × marchandii Friedrich
- Crassula mataikona A.P.Druce
- Crassula mesembrianthemopsis Dinter
- Crassula mesembryanthoides (Haw.) D.Dietr.
- Crassula micans Vahl ex Baill.
- Crassula minuta Toelken
- Crassula minutissima Skottsb.
- Crassula mollis Thunb.
- Crassula montana L.f.
- Crassula morrumbalensis R.Fern.
- Crassula moschata G.Forst.
- Crassula multicaulis (Petrie) A.P.Druce & Given
- Crassula multicava Lem.
- Crassula multiceps Harv.
- Crassula multiflora Schönland & Baker f.
- Crassula muricata Thunb.
- Crassula muscosa L.
- Crassula namaquensis Schönland & Baker f.
- Crassula natalensis Schönland
- Crassula natans Thunb.
- Crassula nemorosa (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Endl.
- Crassula nodulosa Schönland
- Crassula nudicaulis L.
- Crassula numaisensis Friedrich
- Crassula nyikensis Baker
- Crassula oblanceolata Schönland & Baker f.
- Crassula obovata Haw.
- Crassula obtusa Haw.
- Crassula orbicularis L.
- Crassula ovata (Mill.) Druce
- Crassula pageae Toelken
- Crassula pallens Schönland & Baker f.
- Crassula papillosa Schönland & Baker f.
- Crassula peculiaris (Toelken) Toelken & Wickens
- Crassula peduncularis (Sm.) Cambess.
- Crassula pellucida L.
- Crassula peploides Harv.
- Crassula perfoliata L.
- Crassula perforata Thunb.
- Crassula phascoides (Griseb.) M.Bywater
- Crassula planifolia Schönland
- Crassula plegmatoides Friedrich
- Crassula pruinosa L.
- Crassula pseudhemisphaerica Friedrich
- Crassula pubescens Thunb.
- Crassula pustulata Toelken
- Crassula pyramidalis Thunb.
- Crassula qoatlhambensis Hargr.
- Crassula quadrifaria N.Jacobsen
- Crassula rhodesica (Merxm.) Wickens & M.Bywater
- Crassula rogersii Schönland
- Crassula roggeveldii Schönland
- Crassula ruamahanga A.P.Druce
- Crassula rubricaulis Eckl. & Zeyh.
- Crassula rudolfii Schönland & Baker f.
- Crassula rupestris L.f.
- Crassula saginoides (Maxim.) M.Bywater & Wickens
- Crassula sarcocaulis Eckl. & Zeyh.
- Crassula sarmentosa Harv.
- Crassula saxifraga Harv.
- Crassula scabra L.
- Crassula × scabrella Haw.
- Crassula schimperi Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
- Crassula sebaeoides (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Toelken
- Crassula sediflora (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Endl.
- Crassula sericea Schönland
- Crassula × serpentaria Schönland
- Crassula setulosa Harv.
- Crassula sieberiana (Schult. & Schult.f.) Druce
- Crassula simulans Schönland
- Crassula sinclairii (Hook.f.) A.P.Druce & Given
- Crassula sladenii Schönland
- Crassula smithii van Jaarsv., D.G.A.Styles & G.McDonald
- Crassula socialis Schönland
- Crassula solieri (Gay) F.Meigen
- Crassula southii Schönland
- Crassula spathulata Thunb.
- Crassula streyi Toelken
- Crassula strigosa L.
- Crassula subacaulis Schönland & Baker f.
- Crassula subaphylla (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Harv.
- Crassula subulata L.
- Crassula susannae Rauh & Friedrich
- Crassula tabularis Dinter
- Crassula tecta Thunb.
- Crassula tenuicaulis Schönland
- Crassula tenuipedicellata Schönland & Baker f.
- Crassula tetragona L.
- Crassula thunbergiana Schult.
- Crassula tillaea Lest.-Garl.
- Crassula tomentosa Thunb.
- Crassula tuberella Toelken
- Crassula umbella Jacq.
- Crassula umbellata Thunb.
- Crassula umbraticola N.E.Br.
- Crassula undulata Haw.
- Crassula vaginata Eckl. & Zeyh.
- Crassula vaillantii (Willd.) Roth
- Crassula venezuelensis (Steyerm.) M.Bywater & Wickens
- Crassula vestita Thunb.
- Crassula viridis (S.Watson) M.Bywater & Wickens
- Crassula volkensii Engl.
- Crassula werneri N.H.G.Jacobsen
- Crassula whiteheadii Harv.
- Crassula zombensis Baker f.
- Bulliarda DC.
- Combesia A.Rich.
- Crassularia Hochst. ex Schweinf.
- Creusa P.V.Heath
- Curtogyne Haw.
- Danielia Lem.
- Dasystemon DC.
- Dietrichia Tratt.
- Dinacria Harv.
- Disporocarpa A.Rich.
- Globulea Haw.
- Gomara Adans.
- Grammanthes DC.
- Helophytum Eckl. & Zeyh.
- Hydrophila Ehrh.
- × Kalorochea H.J.Veitch
- Kalosanthes Haw.
- Larochea Pers.
- Mesanchum Dulac
- Pagella Schönland
- Petrogeton Eckl. & Zeyh.
- × Purgobulea P.V.Heath
- Purgosea Haw.
- Rhopalota N.E.Br.
- Rochea DC.
- × Rocheassula G.D.Rowley
- Sarcolipes Eckl. & Zeyh.
- Septas L.
- Septimia P.V.Heath
- Sphaeritis Eckl. & Zeyh.
- Tetraphyle Eckl. & Zeyh.
- Thisantha Eckl. & Zeyh.
- Tillaea L.
- Tillaeastrum Britton
- Tillia St.-Lag.
- Toelkenia P.V.Heath
- Turgosea Haw.
- Vauanthes Haw.
Crassula L. appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 1, 1870 | McKen [2], South Africa | K000310200 | ||
Madagascar | 12161.000 | |||
28635.000 | ||||
29456.000 | ||||
Wild, H. [45844], Mozambique | 8512.000 | |||
Polhill, R. [1288], Tanzania | 3777.000 | |||
Fearn, B., South Africa | 30690.000 | |||
Collenette, I.S. [7480], Saudi Arabia | 55141.000 | |||
Collenette, I.S. [7954], Saudi Arabia | 56666.000 | |||
Hargrave-Wilson, Kenya | 24522.000 | |||
Philcox [8901], Zimbabwe | 49891.000 | |||
Philcox [8881], Zimbabwe | 49892.000 | |||
Philcox [8962], Zimbabwe | 49893.000 | |||
McWhirter, J. [185], Madagascar | 32203.000 | |||
Owen, D. [064], Malawi | 54442.000 | |||
Guichard, K. | 8513.000 | |||
10522.000 | ||||
Baur, R. [595], South Africa | K000310199 | |||
Baur, R. [595], South Africa | K000310198 |
First published in Sp. Pl.: 283 (1753)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
Literature
Flora of West Tropical Africa
- —F.T.A. 2: 388, incl. Tillaea Linn.
Flora Zambesiaca
- Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 136 (1754).
- Sp. Pl. 1:282 (1753)
Flora of Somalia
- Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
- Wickens & Bywater in Kew Bull. 34: 629–637 (1980).
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- emend. Schönl. in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 17: 160 (1929)
- L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 136 (1754)
- Sp. Pl.: 282 (1753)
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