Synonym: Crassula galpinii
Region: South Africa; Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho
Habitat: grassland, shallow rock pockets.
BotanyHerb; perennials.
Stem: several terminal rosettes on fleshy stems which are continued into fleshy roots.
Leaves: linear-triangular; 5 to 15 mm long, 2 to 3 mm wide; usually acute, scarcely broadened towards base, almost terete or with upper surface more or less flattened; glabrous or sometimes minutely papillose; green often tinged red or reddish brown.
Inflorescence: several dichasia often ending in monochasia.
Flowers: pedicellate; peduncle 0 to 40 mm long; sepals linear, 2 - 3 mm long and usually of different lengths, abruptly constricted into blunt apices, triangular in section, fleshy, glabrous, green tinged more or less red; corolla star-shaped, fused at base for up to 2 mm, white tinged red, petals elliptic to obovate, 3 to 4.5 mm long, each with rounded apex and faintly ridged but without dorsal appendage, spreading; anthers yellow; blooming in summer and autumn.
TaxonomySection Galpiniflora.