Kalanchoe bentii
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Kalanchoe bentii is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe bentii is a perennial subshrub that reaches heights of 100 to 150 centimeters. The simple, upright, stem-round, bare, smooth shoots are dull olive green to green. They are thick and have a diameter of 2 to 4 centimeters at their base. The seated, plump, fleshy, spread out and bent back leaves are bare. Your dagger-shaped, somewhat cylindrical, glauke olive-green leaf blade is 7 to 40 centimeters long and 0.5 to 2.5 centimeters wide. Its tip is pointed and the base encompasses the stem. The leaf margin is entire.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence consists of equilateral, multi-flowered panicles and is up to 20 centimeters long. The upright, glabrous or glandular-papillary flowers are on 5 to 18 millimeter long pedicels . Your calyx tube is 0.7 to 1 millimeter long. The lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, pointed calyx lobes are 5 to 17 millimeters long and 1.5 to 3.5 millimeters wide. The corolla is pure white to whitish and tinted pink. The cylindrical to slightly square corolla tube is inflated towards the base and 20 to 40 millimeters long. Their expanded and recurved, egg-shaped, pointed corolla lobes have an attached tip and are 10 to 16 millimeters long and 2 to 6 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached close to the throat of the corolla tube. The upper stamens protrude slightly from the flower. The anthers are elongated to ovate. The linear nectar flakes have a length of 6 to 7 millimeters and are about 0.5 millimeters wide. The slender, narrowly elongated carpel has a length of 12 to 15 millimeters. The stylus is 5 to 8 millimeters long.
The elongated seeds reach a length of 1 to 1.2 millimeters.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe bentii is common in the Arabian Peninsula and Somalia .
The first description by Joseph Dalton Hooker was published in 1901. The following subspecies are distinguished:
- Kalanchoe bentii subsp. bentii
- Kalanchoe bentii supsp. somalica Cufod.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe bentii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 152 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Curtis's Botanical Magazine . Volume 127, 1901, plate 7765 ( online ).
