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Electronic Flora of South Australia infraspecific Fact Sheet

Family: Crassulaceae
Crassula colorata var. acuminata

Citation: Toelken, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 6:195 (1983).

Synonymy: Tillaea acuminata Reader, Victorian Nat. 15:96 (1898); T. sieberana Schultes & Schultes f. var. acuminata (Reader)Ewart, Jean White & Tovey, J. Proc. R. Soc. N.S.W. 42:196 (1908); C. colorata (Nees) Ostenf. var. tuberculata Toelken, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 3:81 (1981).

Common name: None

Description:
Follicles almost cylindrical and slightly laterally compressed, abruptly constricted in the lower third and gradually constricted into a slender style, with a cluster of crustaceous brown tubercles in the lower third but otherwise membranous.

Distribution:  Common in temperate and eremaean regions of Australia. Grows in a wide range of habitats and often mixed with C. sieberana subsp. tetramera.

S.Aust.: NW, LE, NU, GT, FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   W.Aust. (southern and central); N.T. (southern); Qld (south-eastern); N.S.W.; Vic.

Flowering time: Aug. — Nov.

Biology: Not Applicable

Author: Not yet available


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