Crassula

Annual or perennial herbs, decumbent to erect, usually succulent, sometimes aquatic, rarely subshrubby, slightly woody perennials. Leaves opposite, connate at least in a basal ridge, usually entire, glabrous or with marginal hairs. Inflorescence a spike-like to umbel-like thyrse with 1–many dichasia, rarely reduced to monochasia or a single axillary flower, either foliose with cymules borne in axils of leaf-like bracts or bracteose and distinct from the vegetative parts; flowers 3–5-merous. Calyx basally connate; corolla scarcely connate, with lobes spreading or rarely tubular and sometimes with terminal appendage (not in Australia); stamens as many as petals, basally fused to corolla tube; nectary scales free; ovary superior, carpels as many as petals, free, with 1–many ovules. Seeds smooth, rugulose, tuberculate and/or with longitudinal ridges.