Kalanchoe beauverdii
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Kalanchoe beauverdii is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae). The specific epithet honors the Swiss botanist Gustave Beauverd (1867–1942).
description
Kalanchoe beauverdii is a completely bare climber . Its slender, woody, weak, prostrate shoots are several meters long. They are richly branched and climb with support. The very thick, succulent leaves are sessile to semi-sessile or have short stems, green, somewhat purple-streaked and usually covered with a waxy hoop. They are very variable in shape and size. The linear, narrow spatula, spear-shaped, egg-shaped to elongated, sometimes three-lobed-spear-shaped leaf blade is 1.5 to 11 inches long and 0.3 to 4 inches wide and pointed at the tip. The base is slightly encompassing the stem. The leaf margin has entire margins or a few tiny teeth in the upper quarter, on which there are numerous, very slightly sloping brood buds .
The inflorescence is a loose, few-flowered cyme . The pendulous flowers sit on 0.6 to 4 centimeter long flower stalks . The greenish-yellow, somewhat purple-tinted calyx tube is 1 to 10 millimeters long, has a diameter of up to 12 millimeters and ends in triangular, pointed tips that are 7 to 13 millimeters long and 6.9 to 8.2 millimeters wide. The corolla is bell-shaped, pale green to gray-green with red-purple stripes. The 11 to 33 millimeter long corolla tube has egg-shaped to circular, pointed tips 12 to 17 millimeters long and 8 to 19 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached near the base of the corolla tube and all protrude from the corolla tube. The anthers are egg-shaped and between 2 and 2.4 millimeters long. The egg-shaped-triangular nectar flakes are 0.8 to 2 millimeters long and about 2.5 millimeters wide. The narrow, egg-shaped carpel is between 5 and 8 millimeters, the stylus between 15 and 17 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe beauverdii is widespread in south and south-west Madagascar in dry bush and dry forests on various soils at altitudes of up to 850 meters. The first description was in 1907 by Raymond-Hamet .
Bryophyllum beauverdii is a synonym . Due to the variability of the species, there are numerous other synonyms.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe beauverdii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 151 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bulletin de l'Herbier Boissier . Second Series, Volume 7, 1907, pp. 887-888.
