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Key to families | Table of families and genera This text currently parallels The Jepson Manual: Vascular Plants of California, Second Edition that is now available at the University of California Press. Text appearing in blue on this page will not appear in the printed book; it will be displayed only on the Web. Specimen numbers are hyperlinked to records in the Consortium of California Herbaria data view where possible. Taxa are hyperlinked to entries in the Jepson Interchange via the "[Online Interchange]" link. |
Annual, perennial herb, shrub, glabrous (hairy).
Stem: erect to decumbent, branched or not.
Leaf: opposite, 0.1–7 cm, linear to deltate or obovate, bases fused, ± sheathing; margins generally entire.
Inflorescence: terminal panicle or flowers 1 in axils of leaves, either 2 per node, axillary, or 1 per node, terminal but appearing axillary by overtopping of main axis.
Flower: erect, sepals 3–5, ± fused at base; petals 3–5, spreading or recurved, free or ± fused at base; stamens = sepals in number; pistils 3–5.
Fruit: spreading to erect.
Seed: 0.2–0.6 mm, elliptic to elliptic-oblong ( spheric, reniform), generally with longitudinal lines, sometimes ± smooth or papillate, red-brown.
x=(7)8.
± 250 species: especially Africa, annual ± worldwide. (Latin: diminutive of thick) Crassula argentea Thunb., a synonym of Crassula ovata (Mill.) Druce, a waif.
Unabridged references: [Moran 1992 Cactus and Succulent Journal 64:223–231]
1. Perennial to shrub; leaves generally > 10 mm; flowers in terminal inflorescence, many
2. Lvs linear to narrow-deltate, ± cylindric ..... C. tetragona
2' Lvs obovate to ovate or wide-elliptic, ± flat
3. Perennial; stems erect or decumbent; leaf ovate to wide-elliptic, petiole 5–20 mm; pedicel 3–8 mm; petals generally 4, 3–4 mm ..... [C. multicava subsp. multicava]
3' Shrub; stems erect; leaf obovate, petiole ± 0; pedicel 8–12 mm; petals generally 5, 7–10 mm ..... [C. ovata]
1' Annual; leaves generally < 6 mm; flowers in leaf axils, 1–2 per node, or terminal, 1
4. Fls 1 per node (or terminal); sepals ± 1/2 petals; seeds >= 3; plants generally aquatic or on wet substrates (e.g., seeps, vernal pools, ditches); stems ± decumbent to ascending, generally rooting at nodes
5. Seeds with ± regular, continuous, longitudinal lines at 20×, ± dull or shiny but not glistening as if wet; follicles subtruncate at tip, suture abruptly outcurved in distal 1/4; sepals 0.5–1.5 mm, ovate to oblong ..... C. aquatica
5' Seeds with irregular, interrupted, longitudinal lines at 20×, shiny, glistening as if wet; follicles oblique-acute at tip, suture gradually outcurved in distal 1/2; sepals 0.4–1 mm, deltate-ovate to lanceolate ..... C. solieri
4' Fls generally 2 per node; sepals >= petals; seeds (1)2; plants generally terrestrial but not on wet substrates; stems ± erect, not rooting at nodes
6. Fl parts generally in 3s; pedicels generally < 0.5 mm ..... C. tillaea
6' Fl parts generally in 4s or 5s; pedicels generally > 1.5 mm
7. Fl parts generally in 5s; leaves generally 4–5 mm, tip acute, with short awn or point; petals ± 1.2 mm, lanceolate ..... C. colligata subsp. lamprosperma
7' Fl parts generally in 4s; leaves generally < 4 mm, tip acute to rounded, without awn or point; petals generally < 1.2 mm, narrow-deltate ..... C. connata
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