Kalanchoe ambolensis
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Kalanchoe ambolensis is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe ambolensis is a perennial , completely bare plant that reaches heights of 50 to 80 centimeters. Their upright shoots are lignified at their base. The ascending, fleshy branches are glaucous , the fleshy leaves are stalked. The basal widened, stem-encompassing petiole is 5 to 7 centimeters long. The elongated leaf blade is 10 to 15 inches long and 3 to 6 inches wide. Its tip is blunt. The leaf margin is irregularly serrated and notched. The base is rounded, shield-shaped or divided into three parts with blunt, tiny notched lobes 2 to 6 centimeters long and 1 to 2 centimeters wide.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence is composed of ebensträußigen cymes with a height of 10 to 15 centimeters and carries leaf buds. The pendulous flowers are on 10 to 20 millimeter long flower stalks . The purple dotted calyx is bell-shaped and the calyx tube is about 2 millimeters long. The lanceolate-triangular, sharply pointed calyx tips are 5 to 6 millimeters long and 3 to 4 millimeters wide. The fleshy, red corolla is striped purple. The narrow corolla tube, somewhat square towards the base, about 9 millimeters long. Their elongated, blunt corolla lobes have a length of about 5 millimeters and are 4 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached in the lower quarter of the corolla tube. The upper stamens protrude slightly from the flower. The almost triangular anthers are about 1.2 millimeters long. The rectangular to almost square nectar flakes are about 1 millimeter long. The carpel has a length of about 5 millimeters. The stylus is 6 to 7 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe ambolensis is distributed in the southeast of Madagascar on rocks in forests at altitudes of 700 meters.
The first description by Jean-Henri Humbert was published in 1833.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe ambolensis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 149-150 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle . Second Series, Volume 5, Number 2, 1933, pp. 164-165.