Crassula perfoliata

Crassula perfoliata is the type species of the nominative genus, Crassula, of the family Crassulaceae, where it is placed in the subfamily Crassuloideae. It was first formally described by Linnaeus in 1753 as one of 10 species of Crassula.[1] It is a perennial, from S Africa.[2]

Crassula perfoliata
Crassula perfoliata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Saxifragales
Family:	Crassulaceae
Genus:	Crassula
Species:	C. perfoliata
Binomial name
Crassula perfoliata L.[1]
Synonyms
List Rochea perfoliata var. alba (Haw.) Sweet Rochea perfoliata (Linné) DC. Rochea falcata var. acuminata Eckl. & Zeyh. Larochea perfoliata var. alba Haw. Larochea perfoliata (Linné) Haw. Crassula perfoliata var. albiflora Harv. Crassula pallida Bak.

Two varieties are recognized:[2]

• C. perfoliata var. falcata (J.C.Wendl.) Toelken
• C. perfoliata var. heterotricha (Schinz) Toelken

Crassula perfoliata var. falcata has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. [3]

References

1. Linnaeus 1753.
2. WFO 2019.
3. . RHS https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/4743/Crassula-perfoliata-var-falcata/Details. Retrieved 5 May 2020. Missing or empty |title= (help)

Bibliography

• Linnaeus, Carl (1753). "Crassula". Species Plantarum: exhibentes plantas rite cognitas, ad genera relatas, cum differentiis specificis, nominibus trivialibus, synonymis selectis, locis natalibus, secundum systema sexuale digestas. Stockholm: Impensis Laurentii Salvii. pp. 282–283.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link), see also Species Plantarum
• WFO (2019). "Crassula perfoliata L." World Flora Online. Retrieved 5 November 2019.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)