Crassula ruamahanga

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

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

description

Crassula ruamahanga is a tender, herbaceous plant that forms dense mats. Their shoots are thread-like. The internodes are up to 1 centimeter apart. The thin, linear foliage leaves are 1 to 2 millimeters (rarely up to 2.5 millimeters) long. They are pointed or have an attached point.

The four-fold flowers are sessile or almost sessile and have a diameter of about 1.5 millimeters. The cup is deeply divided. The linear-lanceolate petals are pointed. Their very narrow sepals are pointed to slightly pointed. They are shorter than the petals. Their color is not described. The nectar flakes are tiny. The stylus is bent back. Two (rarely possibly four) seeds are formed per carpel .

Systematics and distribution

Crassula ruamahanga is common in New Zealand .

The first description by Anthony Peter Druce was published in 1987. Synonyms are Tillaea acutifolia Kirk (1899) and Crassula acutifolia (Kirk) APDruce & Given (1984, nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 53.1).

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literature

Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld: Crassula ruamahanga . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 72 .

Individual evidence

^ In: HE Connor, E. Edgar: Name changes in the indigenous New Zealand flora, 1960-1986 and Nomina Nova IV, 1983-1986 . In: New Zealand Journal of Botany . Volume 25, number 1, 1987, p. 128 ( doi: 10.1080 / 0028825X.1987.10409961 ).

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[1] In: HE Connor, E. Edgar: Name changes in the indigenous New Zealand flora, 1960-1986 and Nomina Nova IV, 1983-1986 . In: New Zealand Journal of Botany . Volume 25, number 1, 1987, p. 128 ( doi: 10.1080 / 0028825X.1987.10409961 ).