Kalanchoe bogneri
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Kalanchoe bogneri is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe bogneri is a perennial , completely bare plant that reaches heights of up to 100 centimeters and is covered with white floury frost. Its numerous, upright, thick shoots have a diameter of up to 15 millimeters and are not very branched at their base. The fleshy leaves are sessile. The greenish-bluish, ovate-elongated leaf blade is 6 to 13 centimeters long and 4 to 7 centimeters wide. Its tip is blunt to rounded, the base narrowed and encompassing the stem. The red leaf margin is serrate to tiny.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence consists of evenly arranged grapes that reach a length of 20 to 30 centimeters. The pendulous flowers are on 2 to 2.5 millimeter long flower stalks . The urn-shaped, slightly square cup is 2.4 to 2.7 millimeters long. The triangular calyx lobes are pointed. The corolla tube , which is pale green to the base , is pale to bright red-orange above and square in the upper part. It is about 3.5 millimeters long. Their blunt, upright corolla lobes are pale red and have a length of about 10 to 12 millimeters. The stamens do not protrude from the flower. The anthers are about 2 millimeters long. The short nectar flakes are elongated. The carpel has a length of about 3.8 millimeters. The stylus is about 3 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe bogneri is common in Madagascar in crevices with black humus on cliffs.
The first description by Werner Rauh was published in 1993.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe Bogneri . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 153 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cacti and other succulents . Volume 44, Number 9, 1993, pp. 181-185.
Web links
- Herbarium specimen (isotype) at jstor
- Photo of the inflorescence
