Crassula brevifolia
A small, branching succulent shrub up to about 50 cm tall from the arid west of South Africa and southern Namibia, with short, thick, three-angled grey-green leaves that are often edged red, on thin woody stems. It is a close relative of Crassula rupestris and C. perforata. It grows in a winter-rainfall desert, so it grows mainly in the cool season and wants a hot, dry summer.
Where it grows wild
The typical subspecies grows on exposed quartzite and granite outcrops. The rarer subsp. psammophila grows on flatter sandy or gravelly ground, including near the Orange River. Both grow in open succulent karoo scrub with almost no shade.
Lowland to low mountains of Namaqualand and southern Namibia; published elevation ranges were not found.
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