Citation: L., Sp. Pl. 283 (1753).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Perennial shrublets rarely to 30 cm high when flowering, usually much branched at the base; leaves oblong-elliptic, 1.5-3 x 0.5-0.8 cm, becoming shorter below the inflorescence, obtuse to rounded, gradually constricted towards the base, erect, dorsiventrally flattened, with a dense row of marginal cilia, green to yellowish-green.

Inflorescence a terminal rounded or flat-topped thyrse borne well above the leaves; flowers 5-merous, with a short pedicel; calyx lobes triangular, 2-3 mm long, acute or obtuse, slightly fleshy, green often tinged red; corolla urceolate at first later campanulate and with recurved lobes, white to pale-yellow; lobes ovate-rostrate, c. 3 mm long, bluntly acute, without a dorsal ridge, first erect, later recurved; nectary scales oblong, truncate or slightly emarginate, slightly constricted downwards, fleshy, pale-yellow; ovaries oblong-reniform, gradually constricted into slender styles, with 8-12 ovules.

Follicles erect, smooth, dehiscing by an apical pore.

	Crassula ciliata
Image source: fig 228a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  S.Aust.: SL.   Native along the southern Cape coast, South Africa. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Nov. — Jan.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available