Crassula saginoides
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Crassula saginoides is a species of thick leaf ( Crassula ) in the family of thick leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Crassula saginoides is an upright herbaceous plant with erect ends that grows up to 13.5 centimeters long. Their elliptically, lanceolate leaves are 2 to 5 millimeters long and pointed.
A four-fold flower is formed per node . The flower stalk, which is extended at the time of fruiting, is 2 to 19 millimeters (rarely from 0.5 millimeters) long. The triangular to blunt petals are 0.9 to 1.3 millimeters long and 0.4 to 0.9 millimeters wide. Black glandular points are sometimes present on them. Their 1.3 to 1.9 millimeters long and 0.5 to 0.7 millimeters wide sepals are oblong to ovoid. They are longer than the petals. The thread-like spatula-like nectar flakes are 0.9 millimeters long. Eight to ten (rarely 6 to 17) seeds are formed per carpel . The elongated elliptical seeds are reddish brown and striped lengthways. They are about 0.39 to 0.42 millimeters long and 0.14 to 0.2 millimeters wide.
Systematics and distribution
Crassula saginoides is distributed in North America from Alaska to Mexico , on Hispaniola and in Central Asia at altitudes of up to 3000 meters. The species is feral in Portugal . It is terrestrial to semi-aquatic.
The first description as Tillaea saginoides by Carl Johann Maximowicz was published in 1880. Marie Bywater and Gerald Ernest Wickens put the species in 1984 in the genus Crassula . There are numerous synonyms .
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literature
- Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld: Crassula saginoides . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 73 .