Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Crassula tetramera
Common name
A crassula
Family
Crassulaceae
Where found
Shrubland, and often in open areas without shade. Widespread.
Notes
Annual herb, sprawling to prostrate, stems to 15cm long. Stems and leaves fleshy. Leaves opposite each other, 0.07-0.32 cm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide, surfaces hairless, margins finely warty at least towards the leaf tips, the leaves of each pair united at the base to form a ridge round the stem, tips rounded. Flowers cream tinged red, with four petals each 0.3-0.5 mm long, shortly fused at the base. Flowers in clusters of 3-12 flowers.
VICFLORA description: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/a820a7db-30f6-4b5e-a39f-fac952e348db (accessed 9 October, 2010)
Much of the description above is based on Toelken, H.R. & Dashorst, G.R.M. (2002), The annual taxa of the Crassula sieberiana complex in South Australia. South Australian Naturalist 76(1/2): 11-13, Fig. 3
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