Crassulaceae
Crassula

Crassula alsinoides (Hook.f.) Engl.

First published in Abh. Königl. Akad. Wiss. Berlin 1891(2): 231 (1892)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tropical & S. Africa, N. Yemen, Madagascar. It is a succulent subshrub and grows primarily in the subtropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Ethiopia, Gulf of Guinea Is., Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Northern Provinces, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Yemen, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226.
  • 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

  • in Abb. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1891, 2: 231 (1892).

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Fischer, E., Rembold, K., Althof, A. & Obholzer, J. (2010). Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Kakamega forest, Western province, Kenya. Journal of East African Natural History 99: 129-226.
  • 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. 105, fig. on p. 108 (1974).
  • Bally in Journ. E. Afr. Nat. Hist. Soc. 15: 12 (1940).
  • Blundell, Wild Fl. Kenya: 30 (1982).
  • Cufod., Enumeratio Plantarum Aethiopiae Spermatophyta (Supplement in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux.) p. 170 (1954).
  • Engl., Die Pflanzenwelt Ost-Afrikas und der Nachbargebiete, Theile C: 189 (1895)
  • Engl., Die Vegetation Der Erde, IX, Pflanzenwelt Afrikas 3(1): 282 (1915).
  • Engl., Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr.: 231 (1892)
  • F. W. Andr., The Flowering Plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 1: 76 (1950).
  • Greenway & Fitzgerald in Journ. E. Afr. Nat. Hist. Soc. 28 (130): 5 (1972).
  • Hutch. & Bruce in Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Kew 1941: 88 (1941).
  • Jacobsen, Lex. Succ. Pl.: 156 (1974).
  • Keay in Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 1: 116 (1954).
  • Mildbr. in Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Zentral-Afrika-Expedition 1910-1911, 2 (Botanik) p. 183 (1922).
  • O. Hedberg, Afroalpine Vascular Plants pp. 99 & 178 (1957).
  • R. Fernandes in Flora Zambesiaca7: 17 (1983).
  • Toussaint in Flore du Congo Belge et du Ruanda-Urundi, 2: 570 (1951).
  • Wickens & Bywater in Kew Bulletin 34: 636 (1980).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Mar 1, 2008 Cheek, M. [13521] Cameroon K000541190 Yes
Dec 1, 2000 Cheek, M. [8693] Cameroon K000337885 Yes
Aug 1, 1997 Cable, S. [2970] Cameroon K000337889 Yes
Aug 1, 1997 Cable, S. [3075] Cameroon K000337888 Yes
Feb 1, 1997 Munyenyembe, P. [852] Cameroon K000337887 Yes
Jan 1, 1960 Morton, J.K. [810] Cameroon K000050019 Yes
Jan 1, 1953 Morton, J.K. [6724] Cameroon K000050020 Yes
Jan 1, 1949 Brenan, J.P.M. [9519] Cameroon K000050018 Yes
Maitland, T.D. [896] Cameroon K000050025 Yes
Maitland, T.D. [1784] Cameroon K000050023 Yes
Maitland, T.D. [896] Cameroon K000050026 Yes
Ash [1312] Ethiopia K:SPC-35652.000 No
Tanzania K:SPC-28377.000 No
Tweedie, E.M. [1807B] Kenya K:SPC-24438.000 No
Milne-Redhead, E.; Taylor, P. [8928] Tanzania K:SPC-28474.000 No
Breteler, F.J. [162] Cameroon K000050033 Yes
Maitland, T.D. [1784] Cameroon K000050024 Yes
Yemen K:SPC-39306.000 No
Patel, H. [7349] Mozambique K000613611 Yes
Maitland, T.D. [1065] Cameroon K000050022 Yes
Mann [1450] Equatorial Guinea K000310088 Holotype Yes
Breteler, F.J. [302] Cameroon K000050029 Yes
Daramola, B., O. [FHI 40625] Cameroon K000050014 Yes
Hepper, F.N. [2001] Cameroon K000050027 Yes
Maitland, T.D. [1065] Cameroon K000050021 Yes
Onana, J.-M. [541 A] Cameroon K000337886 Yes
Wood, J.R.I. [1916] Yemen K:SPC-39271.000 No
Keay, R.W.J. [FHI 28473] Cameroon K000050017 Yes
Hepper, F.N. [1948] Cameroon K000050015 Yes
Migeod, F., W. H. [152] Cameroon K000050028 Yes
Jun 1, 1976 Moss, C.E.; Rogers, F.A. [400] South Africa Crassula pellucida subsp. alsinoides K000310249 Type Yes
Jun 1, 1976 Moss, C.E.; Rogers, F.A. [400] South Africa Crassula pellucida subsp. alsinoides K000310246 Type Yes
Rogers, F.A. [21414] South Africa Crassula pellucida subsp. alsinoides K000310241 Unknown Type Material Yes
Rogers, F.A. [21414] South Africa Crassula pellucida subsp. alsinoides K000310242 Type Yes
Rehmann, A. [6369] South Africa Crassula pellucida subsp. alsinoides K000310250 Syntype Yes
Wood, J.M. [4630] South Africa Crassula pellucida subsp. alsinoides K000310243 Unknown Type Material Yes

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