Kalanchoe alticola
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Kalanchoe alticola is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe alticola grows persistently , is grayish and completely bare and reaches heights of growth of up to 25 centimeters. It roots at the base and branches out from there. The horizontal, superficial rhizome is elongated. The upright to prostrate shoots are terete and soft. The few sitting, flat leaves are circular or ovoid to obovate. Their pale green to brown, usually strongly glauke , fleshy and leathery leaf blades are 1.5 to 4.5 inches long and 0.8 to 2.2 inches wide. At the tip it is blunt to rounded, at the base it is wedge-shaped and encompasses the stem. The leaf margin is entire.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence is a little-flowered, flattened or rounded thyrse up to 5 centimeters wide. The flowers are erect. Your calyx is 4 to 7 millimeters long. The pointed calyx tips are linear-lanceolate. The yellow to orange corolla has an elongated ampoule-shaped corolla tube with a length of 10 to 12 millimeters. Their lanceolate, pointed and spreading corolla lobes are 5 to 7 millimeters long and 2 to 3 millimeters wide. The oblong, lanceolate nectar flakes are 3 to 3.5 millimeters long.
The seeds are 1 to 1.2 millimeters in length.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe alticola is common in the South African province of Limpopo and in the northwest of Swaziland on shallow, peaty soils on granite rocks.
The first description by Robert Harold Compton was published in 1975.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe alticola . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 149 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Harold Compton: Plantae novae Africanae: 33 . In: Journal of South African Botany . Volume 41, number 1, Kirstenbosch 1975, p. 47.