Flora of New Zealand Series

Crassula purpurata (Hook. f.) Domin in Bibl. bot. Stuttgart 89, 1925, 150.

Delicate erect or spreading sparingly branched annual herb up to 5 cm. tall; branches capillary, with internodes up to 1 cm. long. Lvs 2.5-4·5 mm. long, subsucculent, linear, acuminate. Fls ± 2 mm. diam., the capillary peduncles elongating in fr. Calyx lobes ovate, obtuse to subacute; petals = calyx, linear, acuminate; scales 0. Carpels ± = calyx; seeds us. 10-16 per carpel.

DIST.: N., S. Lowland to lower montane dry grassland and open places, local, from Cape Palliser southwards, east of divide. Also in Tasmania, Australia.

FL.- FT. 10-1.