Crassula minutissima
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Crassula minutissima is a species of thick leaf ( Crassula ) in the thick leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Crassula minutissima is a tiny, upright herbaceous plant up to 1.5 centimeters in length. The lanceolate leaves are 2 to 3.5 millimeters long. The tip of the leaf blade is pointed.
A four-fold flower is formed per node . The flower stalk is about 0.2 millimeters long. The triangular, blunt petals have a length of 0.3 to 0.4 millimeters. The 0.8 millimeter long and 0.4 millimeter wide sepals are egg-shaped. The thread-like nectar flakes are 0.4 millimeters long. Two seeds are formed per carpel . The elongated seeds are reddish brown and striped lengthways to ribbed. They are 0.58 millimeters long and 0.23 millimeters wide.
Systematics and distribution
Crassula minutissima is common in humid places in Patagonia . The species is only known from the locality of the type.
The first description as Tillaea minutissima by Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg was published in 1916. Marie Bywater and Gerald Ernest Wickens put the species in 1984 in the genus Crassula .
Crassula minutissima differs from Crassula aquatica and Crassula saginoides in their small size and large seeds.
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literature
- Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld: Crassula minutissima . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 59 .