Crassula manaia

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Crassula manaia
Systematics
Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order : Saxifragales (Saxifragales)
Family : Thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae)
Subfamily : Crassuloideae
Genre : Thick leaf ( Crassula )
Type : Crassula manaia
Scientific name
Crassula manaia
APDruce & Sykes

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

description

Crassula manaia is a small annual or perennial , herbaceous plant that forms dense moss-like mats and reaches stature heights of up to one centimeter. The thread-like main shoot is colorless or pale pink and has its roots below. The leaves are spread out-ascending. The broadly elliptical-egg-shaped leaf blade is 1 to 2 millimeters (rarely up to 3.5 millimeters) long and 0.6 to 1 millimeter. Their surface is tiny, densely warty.

The four-fold flowers appear individually in the leaf axils and have a diameter of 1 to 1.3 millimeters. The flower stalk is shorter than 1 millimeter. At the fruiting time it is extended to up to 3 millimeters. The triangular egg-shaped petals are shorter or longer than the red-tipped sepals .

One or two more of the less cylindrical, ellipsoidal, brown, 0.3 to 0.35 millimeter long seeds are formed per carpel .

Systematics and distribution

Crassula manaia is common in New Zealand in the west and south of the Taranaki region near the coast.

The first description by Anthony Peter Druce and William Russell Sykes was published in 1988.

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literature

  • Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld: Crassula manaia . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 58 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ AP Druce, WR Sykes: A new species of Crassula L. in New Zealand . In: New Zealand Journal of Botany . Volume 26, Number 3, 1988, pp. 477-478 ( doi: 10.1080 / 0028825X.1988.10410651 ).

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