Crassula gemmifera

Crassula gemmifera
Systematics
	Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order :	Saxifragales (Saxifragales)
Family :	Thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae)
Subfamily :	Crassuloideae
Genre :	Thick leaf ( Crassula )
Type :	Crassula gemmifera
Scientific name
	Crassula gemmifera
	Friedrich

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

description

Crassula gemmifera is a soft, upright with upright ends to creeping, perennial , herbaceous plants, rooted at the node and to achieve growth heights of about 7 centimeters. Their roots are fibrous. The spread out to back-bent leaves are linear to linearly wrongly lanceolate. They are pale green, 3 to 5 millimeters long and 1 millimeter wide. The leaf surface is bare. The tip of the leaf is blunt. The upper side of the leaf is flat, the underside convex.

The inflorescence is reduced to a terminal flower that is apparently axillary. The broad triangular tips of the sepals are up to 0.5 millimeters long. Their tips are blunt. The cup-like corolla is white. Their elongated elliptical tips have a length of up to 1.5 millimeters. The almost pointed tips are bent back. The anthers are red.

The heyday is midsummer.

Systematics, distribution and endangerment

Crassula gemmifera is common in Lesotho as well as in the South African provinces of Eastern Cape , Free State and KwaZulu-Natal in humid depressions, mostly near standing water in temperate African grasslands and on mountain heights.

The first description by Hans Christian Friedrich was published in 1979.

Crassula gemmifera is in the endangered Red List species the IUCN as " Least Concern (LC) ", d. H. classified as not endangered in nature.

proof

literature

Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld: Crassula gemmifera . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 53 .

Individual evidence

↑ 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 . Vol. 15, 1979, pp. 592-594 ( online ).
↑ Crassula gemmifera in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2012. Posted by: Seven, E., 2010. Accessed December 8, 2012 Design.

Web links

Crassula gemmifera in the Red List of South African Plants

[1] 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 . Vol. 15, 1979, pp. 592-594 ( online ).

[2] Crassula gemmifera in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2012. Posted by: Seven, E., 2010. Accessed December 8, 2012 Design.