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Crassula alba

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Internal ID UUID644013dfd2f7b318894698
Scientific name Crassula alba
Authority Forssk.
First published in Fl. Aegypt.-Arab. : 60 (1775)

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Crassula alba is a flowering plant that is native to western Africa, with a distribution that spans from South Africa to Sudan. It belongs to the genus Crassula, which is part of the family Crassulaceae and the order Saxifragales. There are two recognized subspecies of Crassula alba: var. pallida and var. parvisepala.

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Sedum rubicundum Kuntze Revis. Gen. Pl. 3(2): 85 (1898)
Crassula abyssinica A.Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 1: 309 (1848)
Crassula ellenbeckiana Schönland Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 43: 361 (1909)
Crassula milleriana Burtt Davy Man. Pl. Transvaal 1: 38 (1926)
Crassula puberula R.Br. Voy. Abyss. [Salt] Append. p. lxiv. 1814 [Sep 1814] , nom. nud.
Crassula recurva N.E.Br. Gard. Chron. , ser. 3, 8: 684 (1890)
Crassula rubicunda E.Mey. ex Harv. & Sond. Fl. Cap. 2: 341 (1862)
Crassula stewartiae Burtt Davy Man. Pl. Transvaal 1: 38, 139 (1926)
Crassula rubicunda var. milleriana (Burtt Davy) Schönland Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 17: 230 (1929)
Crassula rubicunda var. subglabra Schönland Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 17: 231 (1929)
Crassula rubicunda var. flexuosa Schönland Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 17: 231 (1929)
Crassula rubicunda var. hispida Schönland Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 17: 230 (1929)
Crassula abyssinica var. transvaalensis Schönland Trans. Roy. Soc. South Africa 17: 226 (1929)

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Language Common/alternative name
Arabic كرسول أبيض
Chinese 阿尔巴
Chinese 白花青锁龙

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Name Authority First published in
Crassula alba var. pallida Toelken Bothalia 12: 634 (1979)
Crassula alba var. parvisepala (Schönland) Toelken J. S. African Bot. 41: 93 (1975)

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- Native
  • Africa
    • East Tropical Africa
      • Kenya
      • Tanzania
      • Uganda
    • Northeast Tropical Africa
      • Eritrea
      • Ethiopia
      • Sudan
    • South Tropical Africa
      • Malawi
      • Mozambique
      • Zimbabwe
    • Southern Africa
      • Cape Provinces
      • Free State
      • Kwazulu-Natal
      • Lesotho
      • Northern Provinces
      • Swaziland
    • West-central Tropical Africa
      • Burundi

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000624770
Tropicos 8900502
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:272944-1
The Plant List kew-2741472
Open Tree Of Life 5729965
NCBI Taxonomy 2487944
IPNI 272944-1
iNaturalist 596562
GBIF 7334539
EOL 5546557
USDA GRIN 423757
Wikipedia Crassula_alba

Genomes (via NCBI) Top

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Scientific Literature Top

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The traditional use of southern African medicinal plants in the treatment of viral respiratory diseases: A review of the ethnobotany and scientific evaluations Cock IE, Van Vuuren SF J Ethnopharmacol 27-Jul-2020
PMCID:PMC7384428
doi:10.1016/j.jep.2020.113194
PMID:32730880
Plant use in Odo-Bulu and Demaro, Bale region, Ethiopia Bussmann RW, Swartzinsky P, Worede A, Evangelista P J Ethnobiol Ethnomed 24-Sep-2011
PMCID:PMC3196683
doi:10.1186/1746-4269-7-28
PMID:21943288

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