Flora of New Zealand Series

Crassula moschata Forst. f. in Comm. Soc. Gött. 9, 1789, 26.

Bulliarda moschata Urv. in Mém. Soc. linn. Paris 4, 1826, 618.

Small succulent herb forming extensive patches; stems prostrate, rooting at nodes; branches ascending, up to 15 cm. or more long, us. reddish, succulent; internodes up to 2 cm. long. Lvs (4)-5-10 mm. long, thick, fleshy, narrow-oblong to oblong-spathulate, obtuse. Fls 4-5 mm. diam.; peduncles 3-4 mm. long; calyx deeply obtusely lobed; petals white, > calyx, oblong, broadly obtuse. Scales 4, ± stipitate, linear-cuneate, truncate. Carpels turgid; style very short, recurved; seeds 6-8-(10) per carpel.

DIST.: N., S., St., Sn., Ch., A., C., Ant., M. Coastal marshes, wet rocks, beaches; common from shores of Cook Strait southwards.

FL.- FT. 10-3. Also in Chile; Fuegia; Falkland, Kerguelen, Marion Is.