Crassula inanis
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Crassula inanis is a species of thick leaf ( Crassula ) in the family of thick leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Crassula inanis is a soft, upright to erect end creeping, sparsely branched, perennial , aquatic, herbaceous plant that reaches heights of up to 30 centimeters. The flat, light succulent leaves are bare. Their green, lanceolate to triangular leaf blades are 8 to 20 millimeters long and 2 to 5 millimeters wide. The spreader tips are blunt.
The inflorescence are thyrsenic . The broad, triangular sepals of the flowers are up to 0.5 millimeters long. Their cup-like corolla is white. The obovate corolla lobes have a length of up to 2.5 millimeters and are bent back at their tips. The anthers are yellow to purple in color.
The flowering time is from midsummer to autumn.
Systematics, distribution and endangerment
Crassula inanis is widespread in Uganda , Lesotho and in the South African provinces of Eastern Cape , Free State and KwaZulu-Natal in humid places, mostly near permanent water points in afrotemperate grasslands.
The first description by Carl Peter Thunberg was published in 1794. There are numerous synonyms .
Crassula inanis is in the endangered Red List species the IUCN as " Least Concern (LC) ", d. H. classified as not endangered in nature.
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literature
- Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld: Crassula inanis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 56 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prodromus Plantarum Capensium, quas in Promontorio Bonae Spei Africes, annis 1772-1775 . 1794, p. 54 ( online ).
- ↑ Crassula inanis in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2012. Posted by: Cholo, F. & Foden, W., 2010. Accessed December 9, 2012th
Web links
- Crassula inanis in the Red List of South African Plants