Citation: A. Berger, Natürl. Pflanzenfam. edn 2, 18a:389 (1930) var. alata.

Synonymy: Tillaea alata Viv., Pl. Aegypt. Dec. 4:16 (1830); C. tripartita Wakef., Victorian Nat. 73:186 (1957); C. tillaea Lester-Gad., Fl. Jersey 87 (1903), partly.

Common name: Three-part crassula.

Description:
Annuals with erect stems to 5 cm long, little branched; leaves linear-lanceolate to linear, 1.5-3 x 0.5-0.8 mm, acute and often with a colourless point, flat or almost so above, but usually strongly convex below, green to reddish-brown.

Inflorescence 1, rarely a few, thyrse with sessile dichasia in the axils of leaf-like bracts; pedicels absent or almost so; flowers 3-merous; calyx lobes oblong-lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm long, acuminate to cuspidate with a colourless point, fleshy, green to red; corolla cup-shaped, off-white often tinged red; lobes triangular, 0.7-1 mm long, usually cuspidate, erect; nectary scales oblong-cuneate to almost square, rounded, slightly broadened at the apex, membranous, pale-yellow; ovaries almost conical, at first gradually later abruptly constricted into short styles, with 2 ovules.

Follicles erect, smooth, splitting along the whole suture but opening only in the upper half and breaking off at the base by a circumscissal split.

	Crassula alata
Image source: fig 227c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Growing on shallow soil or in crevices in masonry.   introduced to the vicinity of Perth, W.Aust.; Vic. (central western region).   Native of the eastern Mediterranean region. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Aug — Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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