Crassula elatinoides

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Crassula elatinoides
Systematics
Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order : Saxifragales (Saxifragales)
Family : Thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae)
Subfamily : Crassuloideae
Genre : Thick leaf ( Crassula )
Type : Crassula elatinoides
Scientific name
Crassula elatinoides
( Eckl. & Zeyh. ) Friedrich

Crassula elatinoides is a species of thick leaf ( Crassula ) in the family of thick leaf plants (Crassulaceae).

description

Crassula elatinoides is a soft, upright, bare, green to reddish, annual , herbaceous , succulent plant that reaches heights of up to 6 centimeters and branches from the base. Their roots are fibrous. The differently linear to lanceolate to almost club-shaped leaves are 3 to 5 millimeters long and 1 millimeter wide. The tip of the leaf is blunt. The upper side of the leaf is flat, the underside convex.

The inflorescence are thyrsenic . The triangular sepals are up to 1.5 millimeters long. The obovate tips of the petals are white and up to 1.5 millimeters long. Their tips are blunt and spread out.

The flowering time is spring.

Systematics, distribution and endangerment

Crassula elatinoides is widespread in the South African province of Western Cape in the fynbos in shallow rock pockets with humus.

The first description as Bulliarda elatinoides by Christian Friedrich Ecklon and Carl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher was published in 1898. Hans Christian Friedrich placed the species in the genus Crassula in 1979 . A nomenclatory synonym is Tillaea elatinoides (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Walp. (1843).

About the threat of Crassula elatinoides are the endangered species red list of the IUCN no adequate data.

proof

literature

  • Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld: Crassula elatinoides . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 49 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Friedrich Ecklon, Carl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher: Enumeratio Plantarum Africae Australis Extratropicae . Volume 3, 1837, p. 290 ( online ).
  2. ↑ H.-Chr. Friedrich: Preparatory work for a monograph of the genus Crassula L. III. The hydrophilic clans in South and East Africa . In: Communications from the Botanical State Collection, Munich . Volume 15, 1979, p. 584 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Crassula elatinoides in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2012. Posted by: Matlamela, PF Kamundi, DA, 2010. Accessed December 8, 2012 Design.

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