Crassula multicaulis

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

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

description

Crassula multicaulis is a small herbaceous plant that reaches heights of up to 3 centimeters and forms more or less open groups. The prostrate shoots take root at the nodes and have ascending tips. The internodes are up to 1 centimeter apart. Usually, however, the distance between them is shorter. The fleshy, ovate-awl foliage leaves are about 2 millimeters long. They are pointed and have a more or less attached point. The leaves are arranged somewhat brick-shaped on short side shoots.

The four-fold flowers have a short stalk and a diameter of 2.5 to 3.5 millimeters. Your cup is divided up to about half. The broad, oblate petals are pointed. The sepals are twice as long as the petals. They are pink to white, broadly elongated and bluntly rounded. The thin stylus is bent back. Eight seeds are formed per carpel .

Systematics and distribution

Crassula multicaulis is distributed locally in New Zealand in the humid grasslands of the hill zone and in wet places.

The first description as Tillaea multicaulis by Donald Petrie was published in 1887. Anthony Peter Druce and David Roger Given put the species in 1984 in the genus Crassula .

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literature

  • Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld: Crassula multicaulis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 61 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute . Volume 19, 1887, p. 324 ( online ).
  2. ^ AP Druce, David R. Given: New combinations in New Zealand Crassula (Crassulaceae) . In: New Zealand Journal of Botany . Volume 22, number 4, 1984, p. 583 ( doi: 10.1080 / 0028825X.1984.10425294 ).

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