Small-Leaf Pygmyweed

(Crassula drummondii)

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Description

Crassula drummondii is an upright or crawling with a turnup end of herbaceous plant. The aquatic shoots reach a length of up to 4 centimeters. Their linear-lanceolate leaves are 1.5 to 3 millimeters long. The blade tip is blunt.At each node , a four-pointed flower is formed. The flowers are located on a 1 to 1.3 millimeter (rarely 0.5 to 2 millimeters) long flower stem . Their triangular sepals are 0.4 millimeters long and 0.3 millimeters wide. The lanceolate petals have a length of 1.3 millimeters and a width of 0.3 millimeters. The nectar scales were not described.The oblong to ellipsoidal, warty seeds are reddish-brown.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Saxifragales
Family:Crassulaceae
Genus:Crassula
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