Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Saxifragales Bercht. & J.Presl
Family
Crassulaceae
Genus
Crassula L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Crassula peduncularis (Sm.) F.Meigen, Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 17: 239 (1893)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Tillaea peduncularis Sm. (1817)
  • = Tillaea purpurata Hook.f. (1847)
  • ≡ Crassula purpurata (Hook.f.) Domin, Bibliotheca Botanica 89(4): 704 (1930)
 Description

Delicate annual herb with a single stem or with many stems forming small loose cushions; stems ± decumbent or almost prostrate, rooting at nodes, ascending to c. 5 cm, much-branched. Lvs connate at base, 1.3–3–(4.5) × 0.3–0.7 mm, c. 0.2 mm thick, linear or linear-lanceolate, flattened above, convex beneath; apex acute or apiculate. Fls solitary in axil of one lf of each lf pair, with petals remaining ± erect, 4-merous, c. 1.5 mm diam.; pedicels usually < 1 mm long at anthesis, elongating to 10–(13) mm long at fruiting. Calyx lobes 0.5–0.8 × c. 0.3 mm, ovate-triangular, obtuse or subacute. Petals c. 0.6–0.7 × 0.2–0.3 mm, elliptic-ovate, reddish green with pink or white margins, obtuse or subacute, c. = calyx. Scales c. 0.15 mm long, narrow-linear. Follicles smooth. Seed 0.2–0.35 mm long.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Oct.–Jan.

 Bibliography
Bibliotheca Botanica
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de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
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. [Nationally Critical]
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Meigen, F.C. 1893: Skizze der vegetationsverhaltnisse von Santiago in Chile. Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie 17: 199–294.