Crassula exserta

Annual with stiffly erect stem to 15 cm, little-branched and mainly from the fourth to sixth nodes. Leaves ovate to elliptic, 0.8–3.2 mm long, 0.6–1.8 mm wide, usually obtuse, almost flat above, strongly convex below, papillose to smooth. Inflorescence 1–several thyrses with sessile dichasia subtended by leaf-like bracts. Flowers 4- or 5-merous; calyx-lobes lanceolate, 1–1.5 mm long, pointed, incurving between follicles; corolla white tinged red; lobes linear-lanceolate, 1.4–1.7 mm long, acute or pointed; nectary scales linear, 0.4–0.5 mm long, c. 0.1 mm wide, rounded to truncate; carpels almost cylindric, with 2 ovules. Follicles slightly reclined, tuberculate, releasing seeds through apical pore or detaching basally from receptacle; fruiting pedicel rarely to 5 mm long; seeds 2.4–2.8 mm long, smooth. Flowers Aug.–Nov.