Crassula vaillantii
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Crassula vaillantii is a species of thick leaf ( Crassula ) in the thick leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Crassula vaillantii is a soft, upright to erect end creeping, annual , herbaceous plant that reaches heights of growth of up to 15 centimeters and roots at its nodes . Their green to reddish, bare, linear leaves are 2 to 4 millimeters long and 1 to 2 millimeters wide. The upper side of the leaf is flat, the underside convex. Its tip is pointed to blunt.
The inflorescence is reduced to a single terminal flower that appears to be axillary. Occasionally up to three flowers are formed. Their calyx lobes , up to 0.4 millimeters long, are broadly triangular and blunt at the tips. The cup-like corolla is white to reddish. The corolla lobes are ovate to elliptical, up to 2 millimeters long and bent back at the blunt tips. The anthers are purple in color.
The flowering time extends from spring to midsummer.
Systematics and distribution
Crassula vaillantii is widespread in southern and western Europe , in Russia , Kazakhstan , on Cyprus and in Africa to South Africa in humid lowlands.
The first description as Tillaea vaillantii by Carl Ludwig von Willdenow was published in 1798. Albrecht Wilhelm Roth placed the species in the genus Crassula in 1827 . There are numerous synonyms .
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literature
- Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld: Crassula vaillantii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 84 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Carl Ludwig von Willdenow: Species Plantarum . 4th edition, Volume 1, Part 2, 1798, pp. 720-721 ( online ).
- ↑ In: JF Gleditsch: Enumeratio Plantarum Phaenogamarum in Germania . Part 1, Section 1, 1827, p. 992 ( online ).
Web links
- Crassula vaillantii in the Red List of South African Plants
- Crassula vaillantii . In: Avinoam Danin: Flora of Israel Online.