Kalanchoe boisii
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Kalanchoe boisii is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe boisii is an annual , herbaceous plant that is completely and more or less densely covered with long, glandular hairs and reaches heights of 10 to 30 centimeters. The slender shoots are prostrate. The fleshy, dark green, red spotted leaves are stalked near the base of the shoot and are sessile near the tip. The slender, cylindrical petiole is up to 6 millimeters long. The elongated to elliptical leaf blade is 1.5 to 2.5 inches long and 0.2 to 1.5 inches wide. Its tip is blunt, the base is narrowed. The leaf margin is notched irregularly.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence is a little-flowered, straight-sided grape and reaches a length of 2 to 5 centimeters. The upright flowers are on 3 to 6 millimeter long peduncles . Your calyx tube is about 0.6 millimeters long. Their triangular calyx lobes are 1.2 to 1.6 millimeters long and 0.9 to 1.2 millimeters wide. The golden yellow petals are sparsely hairy to bald. The almost cylindrical corolla tube is 12 to 13 millimeters long. Their egg-shaped, bluntly pointed corolla lobes have a length of 5 to 6 millimeters and are 2 to 3 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached above the center of the corolla tube and do not protrude from the flower. The egg-shaped anthers are about 1 millimeter long. The linear, blunt nectar flakes have a length of 4.5 to 5.5 millimeters. The narrow elongated carpel has a length of 7 to 9 millimeters. The stylus is 2.5 to 3 millimeters long.
The obovate seeds reach a length of about 1 millimeter.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe boisii is common on limestone in western Madagascar .
The first description by Raymond-Hamet and Henri Perrier de La Bâthie was published in 1914.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe boisii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 153 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Annales du Musée Colonial de Marseille . 3rd Series, Volume 2, 1914, pp. 149-153.