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Wrinkleseed Pygmyweed

(Crassula saginoides)

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Description

Crassula saginoides is an upright with raised ends to creeping, herbaceous plant that is up to 13.5 centimeters long. Their elliptically inverted lanceolate leaves are 2 to 5 millimeters long and pointed. A four-flowered flower is formed per node . The flower stem extended at the time of flowering is 2 to 19 millimeters (rarely from 0.5 millimeters) long. The triangular to blunt petals are 0.9 to 1.3 millimeters long and 0.4 to 0.9 millimeters wide. On them there are sometimes black gland spots. Its 1.3 to 1.9 millimeter long and 0.5 to 0.7 millimeter wide sepals are elongated to ovoid. They are longer than the petals. The filiform spatula nectar scales are 0.9 millimeters long. Depending carpel eight to ten (rare 6 to 17) are seeds formed. The elongated elliptical seeds are reddish-brown and elongated. They are about 0.39 to 0.42 millimeters long and 0.14 to 0.2 millimeters wide.

Taxonomic tree:

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