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Issue: Vol. 487 No. 1: 22 February 2021
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-02-22
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.487.1.9
Page range: 97–102
Abstract views: 21
PDF downloaded: 1

Crassula ×mortii (Crassulaceae subfam. Crassuloideae), a new natural hybrid between C. perforata and C. rubricaulis from South Africa’s southern Cape

Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, P.O. Box 77000, Port Elizabeth, 6031 South Africa.
Biodiversity Research and Monitoring Directorate, South African National Biodiversity Institute, P.O. Box 701265, Overport, Durban, 4067 South Africa. School of Chemistry & Physics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 4041 South Africa.
taxonomy Crassula nothospecies Eudicots

Abstract

In terms of species-level diversity, the genus Crassula Linnaeus (1753: 282) is by far the most diverse in the Crassulaceae within the Flora of Southern Africa region [Namibia, Botswana, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), Lesotho, South Africa] (Tölken 1977a, b, 1985). In this region diversity is highest in the Fynbos and Succulent Karoo Biomes, both of which straddle the southern Cape, an area represented in the Western and Eastern Cape provinces.