CHR 605459 – Crassula fallax Friedrich
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 605459
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
27 April 2009
Database record updated:
01 February 2011
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Crassula fallax Friedr.
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
2010-11-01 (Verbatim: 1-11-2010)
Preferred name:
Crassula fallax Friedrich
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Rosales
Family:
Crassulaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Other identifications
Identification
Determined name:
Crassula
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes (prov.)
Identification date:
2005-03-10 (Verbatim: 10 Mar 2005)
Preferred name:
Crassula L.
Active:
no
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Birdlings Flat
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-43.823306 172.706324
Verbatim locality:
Birdlings Flat
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 14/05
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
6 Mar 2005
Start date:
2005-03-06
Land District:
Canterbury Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Sand dune, above south-facing beach.
Notes:
Small succulent shrub to c. 30 cm high, rather bushy. Main stem c. 7 mm thick. Leaves to c. 4 x 1.8 cm, ± oblong-obovate, light green except for dark red margins and apical area, ciliolate. Inflor. erect, with narrow elliptic, dark red leaves and branches. Flowers in dense corymbose panicles to 6 cm or more across, somewhat scented. Calyx lobes 2-2.5 mm long, triangular-lanceolate, dark red. Petals c. 6 x 2 mm, elliptic-oblong, white; upper ½ or more reflexing; with subapical appendage. Stamens subequal to petals; filaments white; anthers yellow. Styles becoming red. Scales yellow, 0.4-0.5 mm wide, ± transversely-oblong. A solitary plant.
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