Citation: Druce, Rep. Botl Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isl. 1916:704 (1917).

Synonymy: Tillaea sieberana Schultes & Schultes f. Mant. 3:345 (1827).

Common name: Sieber crassula, Australian stonecrop.

Description:
Perennials or annuals with erect or decumbent branches to 20 cm long, more or less branched; leaves linear-lanceolate, 3-11 x 1-3 mm, acute to obtuse, usually flat above and more or less convex below, fleshy, green to greyish-brown rarely reddish-brown.

Inflorescence one to several elongate thyrses, rarely panicles, usually with many pairs of dichasia sessile in the axils of the leaf-like bracts; pedicels 1-10 mm long when fruiting; flowers 4-merous; calyx lobes lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 1.5-3 mm long, acute, often very fleshy, green to pale-brown; corolla cup-shaped, pale-yellow to red; lobes lanceolate, 1-2 mm long, sharply acute and often folded lengthwise, erect to spreading; nectary scale linear-cuneate to oblong-T-shaped, more or less truncate, slightly fleshy at the apex, white or pale-yellow; ovaries almost cylindrical to almost conical and gradually constricted into styles, with 2 ovules.

Follicles often slightly papillose, splitting along the whole suture but usually opening into an apical pore and often also with basal circumscissal split.

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

Biology: The typical subspecies is restricted to the mountainous areas of eastern Australia while subsp. tetramera occurs widely in temperate and arid regions of Australia.

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