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Crassula pellucida subsp. alsinoides (Hook. fil.) Tölken

Description

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Prostrate perennial creeping herb, sometimes forming dense mats. Stems slightly 4-angled, fleshy up to 45 cm long, mostly hairless except for 2 lines of hairs on opposite sides. Leaves opposite, more or less ovate-elliptic, up to c. 2.5 cm long, pale green fleshy, hairless; margin entire, sometimes fringed with minute papillae. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils, sometimes as terminal clusters, white rarely tinged pink.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Crassula alsinoides (Hook. f.) Engl. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=125040
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Mark Hyde
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Bart Wursten
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Petra Ballings
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Frequency

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Frequent in the E Highlands
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Crassula alsinoides (Hook. f.) Engl. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=125040
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
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Flora of Zimbabwe

Worldwide distribution

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From Cameroon to Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia, South to Swaziland and South Africa as far as the Eastern Cape.
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
bibliographic citation
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Crassula alsinoides (Hook. f.) Engl. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=125040
author
Mark Hyde
author
Bart Wursten
author
Petra Ballings
original
visit source
partner site
Flora of Zimbabwe