Classification
 Subordinate Taxa
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Crassula multicava Lem., Ill. Hort. 9, 40 (1862)
Vernacular Name(s):
Fairy crassula
 Description

Glabrous, perennial herb; stems prostrate, creeping, sprawling or decumbent, rooting at nodes. Lvs shortly petiolate, sometimes with petioles to 2 cm long, mostly on distal ascending part of stems, not decussate or imbricate except in small rosettes at stem apices, to 45–(55) × 40–(43) mm, broadly ovate, broadly oblong-elliptic, to suborbicular or almost square, flat, entire, green or glaucescent, often suffused with red, especially towards margins, dotted with numerous whitish or reddish hydathodes; base rounded, truncate or subcordate; apex rounded or ± emarginate. Infl. a loose thyrse, to c. 10 cm long but very variable in size; main axis with very small bracts. Fls 5-merous, 8–12 mm diam., usually 12-numerous, on pedicels slightly < to = fls. Calyx 1.5–2 mm long; lobes triangular. Corolla star-like; petals free and patent, (4)–5–6 × 1–2 mm, narrowly triangular or triangular-lanceolate, rose to crimson in bud, pale pink inside at anthesis; apex acute. Stamens 3–4 mm long, < carpels. Scales 0.2–0.3 mm long, ± rectangular (wider than long). Frs and seeds not seen, but fls often replaced by small plantlets in infl. branch axils.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

 Biostatus
Exotic
Number of subspecific taxa in New Zealand within Crassula multicava Lem.
CategoryNumber
Exotic: Fully Naturalised1
Total1
 Phenology

Flowering: Aug.–Feb.

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