Crassula tillaea Lest.-Garl.

Taxonomy: Fam. Creassulaceae// Genus: Crassula// Species: Crassula tillaea Lest.-Garl.

Determined according to the botanical keys provided by Micevski (1998) and Webb (1964 in Tutin et al.).

Lifeform: Annual succulent. Therophyte according to the Raunkiær system.

Distribution: Native to Macaronesia, Europe, Mediterranean to Arabian Peninsula according to the distribution information provided by the Plants of the World Online portal (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew).

Habitat: Hill pastures on silicate rocks with shallow soil and earth roads. Recorded in the region of village of Pripor.

Flowering period: Spring (APR).

Locality: Kochani – village of Pripor region, hill pasture, on silicate rocks and along earth road and footpath. Date: 11.04.2026.

*Crassula tillaea* – habit in habitat. Village of Pripor region, 11.04.2026. Photo by Trajche Dimitrovski.

References:

Crassula tillaea Lest.-Garl. Plants of the World Online portal, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:273549-1 [Accessed 12.04.2026].

Crassula tillaea. Marhold, K. 2011+: Crassulaceae. – In: Euro+Med PlantBase – the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. Published at https://europlusmed.org/. https://europlusmed.org/cdm_dataportal/taxon/4c982aea-f422-4ef0-a539-cb2430026e9f [Accessed 12.04.2026].

Micevski, K. 1998. Crassula L., The Flora of the Republic of Macedonia. Vol. I, Book 4. Skopje: Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, pp. 1038–1039.

Webb, D. A. 1964. Crassula L. In Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A. (eds.), Flora Europaea. Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 351.

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