Crassula pellucida
ζ*C. pellucida L. ζ* has been collected wild at Breaker Bay, Wellington, where a small patch occurred behind the beach on a rocky outcrop. It had presumably escaped from cultivation in the vicinity; the sp. is fairly commonly grown in N.Z. A prostrate, glabrous herb forming small mats, with thin stems to c. 12 cm long; lvs sessile, connate at base, c. 9 × 9 mm, 2.5 mm thick, mostly broadly rhombic-ovate, flat above and convex beneath; infl. a few-flowered, terminal, bracteate cyme; pedicels 3-6 mm long; sepals c. 1 mm long, narrowly triangular; petals 2-8 × c. 1.5 mm, ovate, patent, rose on reverse and near apex, otherwise white. This plant has usually been known in horticulture as C. marginalis Dryander but is now treated as subsp. marginalis (Dryander) Tölken of the widespread and variable C. pellucida. It is illustrated in Plate 12. (South Africa, 1988).
