Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Crassula peduncularis
Common name
Purple crassula
Family
Crassulaceae
Where found
In rarely flooded but marshy areas or mud around standing water, sometimes associated with rock pools. Mainly ACT, the mountains to the west, and Kosciuszko National Park. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Sprawling annual or short lived perennial herb to 0.05 m high, often rooting at the nodes, usually forming dense cushions. Stems often red, the whole plant often tinged red when mature. Stems slightly fleshy, leaves fleshy. Leaves opposite each other, 0.15–0.5 cm long, 0.3–1 mm wide, often red, the leaves of each pair united at the base to form a ridge round the stem, tips mucronate or with a fine point. Flowers white or tinged red, tubular, with 4 spreading lobes 0.9–1.6 mm long. Style about a quarter the length of the ovary, the ovary abruptly constricted into the style (visible with a hand lens or macro app on a mobile phone). Flowers single. Flowers mainly Aug.–Nov.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Crassula~peduncularis (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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