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Synonyms: |
Crassula pellucida subsp. alsinoides (Hook.f.) Tölken |
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Frequency: | Frequent in the E Highlands |
Status: | Native |
Description: |
Prostrate perennial creeping herb, sometimes forming dense mats. Stems slightly 4-angled, fleshy up to 45 cm long, mostly hairless except for 2 lines of hairs on opposite sides. Leaves opposite, more or less ovate-elliptic, up to c. 2.5 cm long, pale green fleshy, hairless; margin entire, sometimes fringed with minute papillae. Flowers solitary in the leaf axils, sometimes as terminal clusters, white rarely tinged pink. |
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Habitat: | Along margins of evergreen forest, often in moist places. |
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Worldwide distribution: | From Cameroon to Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia, South to Eswatini and South Africa as far as the Eastern Cape. |
Zimbabwe distribution: | W,E |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 16. As Crassula pellucida alsinoides Fernandes, R. (1983). Crassulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(1) Pages 17 - 18. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 37. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 72. |
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