Crassula spathulata Thunb.

Glabrous, perennial herb; stems creeping, trailing and decumbent, rooting at nodes. Lvs with petioles 2–7 mm long, scattered along stems, closer on distal parts, not decussate or imbricate except at stem apices, to 15 × 15 mm, broadly ovate to suborbicular, flat or nearly so, green; margins crenulate and with whitish hydathodes between teeth (hydathodes otherwise 0); base broadly cuneate, rounded or slightly subcordate; apex obtuse or rounded. Infl. a very loose thyrse with ± divaricating branches, to c. 7 cm long, generally wider than long; main axis lacking bracts except at apex. Fls 5-merous, c. 10 mm diam., usually 10-many, on pedicels = or slightly > fls at anthesis. Calyx 0.6–1 mm long; lobes triangular-oblong. Corolla star-like; petals free, patent, 3.5–5 × c. 1 mm, lanceolate-acuminate or narrowly triangular- oblong, pink to rose outside, whitish or pale pink inside. Stamens 2–3 mm long, < carpels. Scales 0.1–0.2 mm long, ± narrowly rectangular (wider than long). Frs and seeds not seen; infls lacking plantlets.

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

Flowering: Nov.–May.