Kalanchoe brachyloba
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Kalanchoe brachyloba is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe brachyloba is a perennial or biennial small bare shrub that reaches heights of growth of 60 to 200 centimeters. The simple, green, stem-round shoots grow upright. The seated or almost seated, fleshy, very succulent leaves are somewhat rosetted. The lanceolate, elongated, egg-shaped, elliptical or spatulate leaf blade is glaucous , gray-green and tinged a little red along the edges. It is 5 to 28 inches long and 2.5 to 8 inches wide. Their tip is blunt or rounded, the base narrowed and conspicuously encompassing the stem. The leaf margin is usually serrated-lobed or notched or entire and wavy.
Generative characteristics
The more or less dense inflorescence is a flat-headed, even cymes and reaches a length of 5 to 45 centimeters. The upright flowers are on 6 to 15 millimeter long peduncles . Their sepals are pale green. The calyx tube is 0.7 to 1.5 millimeters long. Their lanceolate to broadly triangular, blunt, fleshy calyx tips are 0.7 to 5 millimeters long and 1.5 to 2.7 millimeters wide. The four-edged, cylindrical to almost pyramidal, yellowish green corolla tube is 10 to 15 millimeters long. Their yellow to orange-yellow, egg-shaped to semicircular, pointed corolla lobes are 2 to 5 millimeters long and 2 to 4 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached above the center of the corolla tube and protrude slightly from the flower. The egg-shaped anthers are 0.5 to 1 millimeter long. The linear-lanceolate, blunt or sanded nectar flakes have a length of 1.5 to 4 millimeters and are 0.5 to 0.7 millimeters wide. The carpel has a length of 8.5 to 12 millimeters. The stylus is 0.5 to 1.5 millimeters long.
The seeds reach a length of 1.6 to 2 millimeters.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe brachyloba is widespread in southern Africa from Zaire to Mozambique , Namibia and South Africa in forest and scrubland on sandy or stony ground or in crevices.
The first description by James Britten was published in 1871.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe brachyloba . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 154 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Photos of the species in the habitat