Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Saxifragales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Crassulaceae
Genus
Crassula L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Crassula sinclairii (Hook.f.) A.P.Druce & Given, New Zealand J. Bot. 22: 583 (1984)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Tillaea sinclairii Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 62 (1864)
  • = Tillaea novae-zealandiae Petrie, Trans. New Zealand Inst. 25: 270 (1892 [1893]) – as Tillæa novæ-zelandiæ
 Description

Perennial herb forming small to large and extensive moss-like mats; stems almost prostrate except for slightly ascending tips, freely rooting at nodes, much-branched. Lvs connate at base, 0.5–2 × 0.2–0.5 mm, c. 0.2 mm thick, lanceolate-oblong, lanceolate-elliptic or oblanceolate, flattened above, strongly convex below; apex acute. Fls solitary in lf axils, star-like, 4-merous, 2.5–3.5 mm diam.; pedicels 0.5–3 mm long, elongating little at fruiting. Calyx lobes 0.4–0.6 × c. 4 mm, broadly ovate, obtuse or subacute. Petals 1–1.8 × 0.5–0.9 mm, broadly ovate or triangular-ovate, white, often flushed pink, obtuse, much > calyx. Scales c. 0.5 mm long, oblong-cuneate or oblanceolate. Follicles smooth. Seed 0.3–0.45 mm long.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Nov.–Apr.

 Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Not Threatened]
Druce, A.P.; Given, D. R. 1984: New combinations in New Zealand Crassula (Crassulaceae). New Zealand Journal of Botany 22: 583–583.
Hooker, J.D. 1864: Handbook of the New Zealand Flora: a systematic description of the native plants of New Zealand and the Chatham, Kermadec's, Lord Auckland's, Campbell's and Macquarie's Islands. Part I. Reeve, London.
Petrie, D. 1893 ("1892"): Description of a New Genus and of New Species of Native Plants, etc. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute 25: 269–275.