Kalanchoe bhidei
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Kalanchoe bhidei is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe bhidei is pale brown to reddish, completely bald and reaches heights of 60 to 100 centimeters. The shoots are upright. The stalked leaves are tinged with red. The flat petiole is enlarged at the base. The elliptically obovate to elliptically elongated leaf blade is 5 to 9.5 inches long and 2 to 5 inches wide. Its tip is blunt, the base wedge-shaped. The leaf margin is coarse and irregularly serrated.
Generative characteristics
The loose, spreading, many-flowered inflorescence is a zymous panicle . The upright, spread out or pendulous, pure white or greenish tinted flowers are on slender, 6 to 9 millimeter long flower stalks . Their sepals are not fused together. Their triangular to lanceolate, pointed to pointed tips are 4.5 to 6 millimeters long and about 2.5 millimeters wide. The almost cylindrical corolla tube is enlarged at the base and 8 to 15 millimeters long. Their elongated to obovate, pointed corolla lobes have an attached tip. They have a length of about 4 millimeters and are 1.5 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached near the tip of the corolla tube and all protrude from the flower. The egg-shaped anthers are about 1.5 millimeters long. The linear, pointed nectar scales are about 3 millimeters long. The elongated carpel has a length of 8 to 9 millimeters. The stylus is 4 to 6 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe bhidei is common in the south of India in the dry bush at altitudes of 1000 to 1700 meters.
The first description by Theodore Cooke was published in 1903.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe bhidei . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 152 .