Crassula sebaeoides

Crassula sebaeoides is a delicate annual that reaches heights from 2 cm to 10 cm when in flower. The erect plant is wiry, branching variably.

The species distribution is in the Western Cape, as well as into the Northern Cape in Namaqualand as far as the Kamiesberg and into the west of the Eastern Cape as far as Makhanda, previously Grahamstown. The photo was taken near Oudtshoorn in the Little Karoo.

The habitat is fynbos, succulent Karoo and generally arid, karoid vegetation on clay and gravel flats. The species is not considered to be threatened in its habitat early in the twenty first century.

The species resembles C. dichotoma that does not have the conspicuous stigma wings in the flower (Curtis-Scott, et al, 2020; Smith, et al, 2017; Vlok and Schutte-Vlok, 2015; Bond and Goldblatt, 1984; iNaturalist; http://www.worldfloraonline.org; http://redlist.sanbi.org).