Common name: Swamp Stonecrop Crassula helmsii (Kirk) Cockayne
APNI* Description: Decumbent or ascending annual with stems to
30 cm long when rooting at the nodes or floating in water, or to
12 cm long if ascending. Leaves narrow-lanceolate, 2–12 mm long,
1–3 mm wide, often brown; sessile. Flowers solitary, terminal
but appearing axillary; pedicels 4–7 mm long in fruit. Flowers
4-merous. Calyx lobes 0.6–1 mm long. Corolla white, lobes 1.6–2
mm long. Carpel scales cuneate. Follicles dehiscing by an apical
pore or a longitudinal slit; seeds 4–10. Distribution and
occurrence: In or around permanently wet areas. NSW
subdivisions: CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, SWS, SWP Other Australian
states: Vic. Tas. W.A. S.A. Text by J. Everett & E. H. Norris
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990) APNI* Provides a link to
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