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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Succulent perennial herb, up to 20 cm tall, growing from a succulent or woody rootstock, often forming distinctive patches. Leaves sessile, usually in dense rosettes at the ends of branches, fleshy and often reddish. Flowers in dense terminal heards, 5-merous, white or cream, sometimes flushed with pink. Fruit less than 2 mm long (in this subspecies). |
| Type location: |
Malawi |
| Notes: | This subspecies is distinguished from subsp. swaziensis by the smaller flowers and the shorter fruit follicles. |
| Derivation of specific name: | swaziensis: of Swaziland, where the type of the nominal subsp. was collected. brachycarpa: with short fruit. |
| Habitat: | Among and on rocks. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Only known from Zimbabwe and southern Malawi. |
| FZ divisions: | S |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 17. Fernandes, R. (1983). Crassulaceae Flora Zambesiaca 7(1) Pages 35 - 38. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 38. |