Citation: F. Meigen, Bot. Jb. 17:239 (1893).

Synonymy: C, bonariensis Cambess. in A. St. Hil., Fl. Brasil. merid. 2:195 (1830), nom. illegit.; Tillaea purpurata Hook. f., London J. Bot. 6:472 (1847); C. purpurata (Hook. f.)Domin, Biblthca Bot. 89:704 (1925). C. bonariensis was described by Cambessedes in 1829 although de Candolle had referred to it in several earlier publications, also under Bulliarda. , Tillaea peduncularis

Common name: Purple crassula.

Description:
Annuals with short decumbent branches to 6 cm long and usually much branched; leaves linear-lanceolate, 2-5 X 0.5-1 mm, cuspidate or acuminate, dorsiventrally flattened and more or less convex on both surfaces, green to deep-red.

Inflorescence a monochasium with single flowers in the axils of leaf-like bracts; pedicels elongating, 3-10 mm long when fruiting; flowers 4-merous; calyx lobes broadly triangular, 0.7-1 mm long, obtuse rarely acute, glabrous, slightly fleshy, green to red; corolla cup-shaped, white more or less tinged red; lobes oblong-triangular, 1.3-1.5 mm, obtuse, spreading; nectary scales narrowly oblong-cuneate, rounded, yellow; ovaries obovoid, each abruptly constricted into short thin styles arising from the inner margin, with 10-14 ovules.

Follicles smooth, recurving at the apex, splitting along the whole suture and opening up so widely that they are easily confused with the slightly smaller petals.

	Crassula peduncularis
Image source: fig 229b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:  Grows in marshy areas which are rarely flooded; occurring mainly in south-eastern Australia. S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, SL, KI, SE.   a few scattered records from southern W.Aust.; north-eastern N.S.W.; Tas.   New Zealand; South America. Conservation status: native Flowering time: No flowering time is available

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

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