Kalanchoe aubrevillei
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Kalanchoe aubrevillei is a species of Kalanchoe plant in the Crassulaceae family.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe aubrevillei grows persistently , is a bit bluish and completely bare and reaches heights of growth of 60 to 150 centimeters. Their upright to basal prostrate shoots are round and have a diameter of up to 2 centimeters. They are yellow-green and spotted with gray streaks. The stalked leaves are yellow-green to slightly glaucous . The half-stem-encompassing, flat or furrowed petiole is up to 10 centimeters long. The egg-shaped to semi-circular leaf blade is 18 to 25 inches long and up to 15 inches wide. Its tip is blunt, the base heart-shaped, truncated to almost shield-shaped. The leaf margin is lobed to roughly notched.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence is up to 20 centimeters long and just as wide panicley raceme . The upright flowers are on 10 to 25 millimeters long, dull purple flower stalks . Your calyx tube is about 1 millimeter long. The awl, narrowed, dull purple calyx lobes are 9 to 12 millimeters long and 3 to 4 millimeters wide. The white petals are greenish in the lower part. The 5 to 6.5 millimeters long square corolla tube is enlarged at the base. Their egg-shaped, lanceolate, white corolla lobes have an attached tip. They are about 18 millimeters long and 7 to 8 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached above the center of the corolla tube. The upper stamens hardly stick out. The elongated anthers are 2.5 to 3.5 millimeters long. The linear nectar flakes have a length of about 7 millimeters. The viewed from the side fruit leaf is lanceolate ovate and has a length of about 25 millimeters. The stylus is about 35 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe aubrevillei is widespread in Kenya and Tanzania on the edges of forests and highland grasslands on volcanic soils at altitudes of 1800 to 2500 meters.
The first description by Georg Cufodontis was published in 1967.
proof
literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe aubrevillei . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 150-151 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Cufodontis: Three new types of Kalanchoë from Kenya and Tanzania . In: Austrian Botanical Journal . Volume 114, 1967, pp. 149-150 ( doi: 10.1007 / BF01373906 ).