Synonym: Purgosea linguifolia; Crassula conspicua; Sphaeritis setigera.
Region: Namibia, South Africa, Northern Cape, Western Cape.
Habitat: coastal sand formations; lower gravelly slopes, with larger rocks.

BotanyHerb; perennial or biennial plants; 30 to 60 cm tall.
Stem: rosettes one to few.
Leaves: sessile, 2 to 10 cm long, 1 to 2,5 cm wide; oblong-elliptic to oblanceolate, rarely obovate; obtuse or acute; dorsiventrally flattened and scarcely convex, gradually becoming narrower; densely hairy, rarely almost glabrous, with thin marginal cilia erect or recurving; green to grey; old leaves persistent; tightly packed, later elongating and rather loosely arranged when blooming.
Inflorescence: a terminal spike-like thyrse; with numerous sessile flowers in dense clusters, peduncle up to 15 cm high, often not distinguishable from a vegetative branch, often branched or lower axillary dichasia stalked, densely hairy; bracts numerous, decreasing upwards in size.
Flowers: sessile; sepals broadly triangular, 2,5 to 3 mm long, apex round, covered with spreading or recurved hairs and irregular cilia, fleshy, green; petals oblong-oblanceolate panduriform, 3 -5,5 mm long, apex rostrate channeled and with dorsal ridge, tips slightly recurved, colour off-white to pale yellow; anthers black, squamae oblong and slightly tapering towards base; blooming from November to December.
Cytology: 2n = 14.