Crassula colorata

Annuals with usually erect stems to 15 cm, little-branched (mainly from the second to fifth nodes) or unbranched. Leaves lanceolate, 2–6 mm long, 0.8–4.4 mm wide, obtuse, rarely acute, flat above, distinctly convex below. Inflorescence 1–several spike-like thyrses, with usually sessile cymules in axils of leafy bracts. Flowers 5-merous; calyx-lobes triangular, 1.2–2.2 mm long, acuminate to obtuse; corolla cream to red, lobes lanceolate, ovate, 1–2.1 mm long, acuminate, rarely acute; nectary scales linear, 0.5–0.7 mm long, 0.15–0.2 mm wide, rounded; carpels almost cylindric, with 2 ovules. Follicles erect, smooth to tuberculate, releasing seeds by basal circumscissal split; seeds 0.3–0.5 mm long, usually faintly longitudinally ridged.