Crassulaceae
Crassula

Crassula alba Forssk.

First published in Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 60 (1775)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Eritrea to S. Africa, SW. Arabian Peninsula. It is a biennial or subshrub and grows primarily in the subtropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Burundi, Cape Provinces, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Accepted Infraspecifics

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
  • Hedberg, I. & Edwards, S. (eds.) (1989 publ. 1990). Flora of Ethiopia and Eritrea 3: 1-659. The National Herbarium, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia & The Department of Systematic Botany, Upps.
  • Hutchinson, J., Dalziel, J.M. & Keay, R.W.J. (1954-1958). Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 1: 1-828.
  • Launert, E. (ed.) (1983). Flora Zambesiaca 7(1): 1-394. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Miller, A.G. & Cope, T.A. (1996). Flora of the Arabian peninsula and Socotra 1: 1-586. Edinburgh university press.
  • Wickens, G.E. (1987). Flora of Tropical East Africa, Crassulaceae: 1-66.
  • Wood, J.R.I. (1997). A handbook of the Yemen Flora: 1-434. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. 60 (1775).

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Miller, A.G. & Cope, T.A. (1996). Flora of the Arabian peninsula and Socotra 1: 1-586. Edinburgh university press.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • A.D.Q. Agnew, Upland Kenya Wild Flowers p. 104, fig. on p. 108 (1974).
  • Berger in A. Engler & K. Prantl, Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, ed. 2, 18a: 394 (1930).
  • Blundell, Wild Fl. Kenya: 30, photo. 68 (1982).
  • Cuf. in Senck. Biol. 39: 123 (1958).
  • Cufod., Enumeratio Plantarum Aethiopiae Spermatophyta (Supplement in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux.) p. 69 (1954), pro parte.
  • DC., Prodr. 3:390 (1828).
  • Forssk., Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.:60 (1775).
  • Hepper in Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 1: 116 (1954), pro parte quoad syn.
  • Jacobsen, Lex. Succ. Pl.: 156 (1974), excl. syn. C. mannii et C. schweinfurthii.
  • O. Hedberg, Afroalpine Vascular Plants p. 101 (1957) pro syn. C. abyssinica.
  • R. Fernandes in Flora Zambesiaca 7: 27, t. 4A (1983).
  • Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 4, App. 2:197 (1896).
  • Tölken in Contrib. Bolus Herb. 8: 362 (1977).
  • Wickens in Kew Bulletin 36: 669 (1982).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Mar 1, 1979 Quartin-Dillon; Petit [45] Ethiopia K000310082 Type Yes
Mar 1, 1979 Schimper [1609] Ethiopia K000310080 Type Yes
Mar 1, 1979 Schimper [931] Ethiopia K000310079 Type Yes
Jun 1, 1976 Brown, N.E. [s.n.] K000232714 Syntype Yes
Jun 1, 1976 Brown, N.E. [s.n.] K000232715 Type No
Jun 1, 1976 Stewart, M.M. [135] Eswatini K000232712 Holotype No
Jun 1, 1976 Dieterlen, A. [6860] Lesotho K000232711 Syntype Yes
Jun 1, 1976 Stewart, M.M. [135] Eswatini K000232713 Holotype No
Radcliffe-Smith, A.; Henchie, S. [4390] Yemen K:SPC-51946.000 No
Brenan, J.P.M. Cameroon K:SPC-10521.000 No
Milne-Redhead, E. [4407] Zambia K:SPC-10526.000 No
Collenette, I.S. Saudi Arabia K:SPC-39155.000 No

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of West Tropical Africa

    • Flora of West Tropical Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0