Crassula colorata var. acuminata
(Reader) ToelkenFollicles club-shaped in profile with upper portion laterally compressed and lower part more or less cylindric, usually flared at the base, and abruptly constricted apically into slender styles (0.44–)0.5–0.6 mm long, with cluster of crustaceous brown tubercles in the lower third but otherwise membranous and pale, rarely tuberculate on most parts or pale and unconstricted below the middle. Flowers Aug.–Nov.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VVP, VRiv, MSB, RobP, MuF, GipP, Gold, CVU, GGr, NIS, EGU, HSF. Also WA, NT, SA, Qld, NSW, ACT. Widespread through a range of habitats, particularly on seasonally wet ground in the north and north-west. In Victoria, largely co-extensive with (and perhaps commoner than) var. colorata.
Distribution based on herbarium specimens only; earlier non-vouchered records not identifiable to variety.
Toelken, H.R.; Jeanes, J.A.; Stajsic, V. (1996). Crassulaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 542–555. Inkata Press, Melbourne.