Crassula sinclairii

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

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

description

Crassula sinclairii is a small, delicate herbaceous plant that grows up to 3 centimeters long and forms dense cushions. The internodes on the shoots are less than 5 millimeters apart. Their thin, linear-awl to linear-elongated leaves are 1 to 2 millimeters long. Its tip is almost pointed to pointed.

The four-fold flowers have a diameter of about 1.5 millimeters. They are short stalked . The calyx is deeply lobed. The ovate-elongated petals are blunt. Their white, elongated, blunt sepals are twice as long as the petals. The very short stylus is slightly bent back. Four (rarely three to eight) seeds are formed per carpel .

Systematics and distribution

Crassula sinclairii is common in New Zealand in humid areas in the hill zone.

The first description as Tillaea sinclairii by Joseph Dalton Hooker was published in 1864. Anthony Peter Druce and David Roger Given put the species in 1984 in the genus Crassula . A synonym is Tillaea novae-zelandiae Petrie (1893).

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literature

  • Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld: Crassula sinclairii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 77 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handbook of the New Zealand Flora . Part 1, 1864, p. 62.
  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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