Crassula venezuelensis
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Crassula venezuelensis is a species of thick leaf ( Crassula ) in the family of thick leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Crassula venezuelensis is an upright creeping plant that has an erect tip. Aquatic shoots reach a length of up to 10 centimeters. Their narrow, triangular-linear leaves are 4.5 to 5 millimeters long. At its tip there is a little bit attached.
A four-fold flower is formed per node . The flower stalk is up to 15 millimeters long. Their up to 1 millimeter long and 0.8 millimeter wide sepals are triangular-egg-shaped. The petals are 1.4 millimeters long and 0.7 millimeters wide. They are longer than the sepals. The thread-like nectar flakes have a length of 0.6 millimeters. Six to eight seeds are formed per carpel . The elongated seeds are reddish brown and striped lengthways. They are 0.43 to 0.63 millimeters long and 0.2 to 0.34 millimeters wide.
Systematics and distribution
Crassula venezuelensis is found in Colombia , Venezuela , Ecuador , Peru , Bolivia and probably Chile aquatic on the shores of inland lakes at altitudes of 3000 to 4500 meters.
The first description as Tillaea venezuelensis by Julian Alfred Steyermark was published in 1957. Marie Bywater and Gerald Ernest Wickens put the species in 1984 in the genus Crassula .
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literature
- Ernst Jacobus van Jaarsveld: Crassula venezuelensis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 85 .