Kalanchoe campanulata
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Kalanchoe campanulata is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe campanulata is a perennial , epiphytic , bald plant that reaches heights of growth of up to 100 centimeters. Your erect instincts are simple. The thick, fleshy leaves are usually sessile and only sometimes have a broad petiole . The white frosted, somewhat spotted, linear-elongated, elongated to egg-shaped leaf blade is 8 to 10 centimeters long and 2 to 3.5 centimeters wide. Its tip is wedge-shaped, the base encompassing the stem. The leaf margin is notched regularly.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence consists of dense ebony bouquets. It reached a length of 5 to 8 centimeters and carries numerous brood buds. The pendulous flowers are on 10 to 12 millimeter long flower stalks . The calyx tube is 2 to 3.5 millimeters long. The slightly triangular to egg-shaped, pointed calyx lobes are 4 to 6 millimeters long and 3.6 to 4.9 millimeters wide. The urn-shaped to bell-shaped corolla is red to orange-red and has a few glandular hairs on the inside. The corolla tube is 10 to 13 millimeters long. Their egg-shaped corolla lobes are 5 to 7 millimeters long and 6 to 8 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached below the center of the corolla tube and do not protrude from the flower. The egg-shaped anthers are about 1.5 millimeters long. The rectangular to obovate nectar flakes have a length of 1 to 1.8 millimeters and are about 1 millimeter wide. The carpel has a length of 7 to 9 millimeters. The stylus is 7 to 9 millimeters long.
The seeds reach a length of about 0.8 millimeters.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe campanulata is common in Madagascar in forests, on forest edges and in bushland on rocks.
The first description as Kitchingia campanulata by John Gilbert Baker was published in 1881. Henri Ernest Baillon placed the species in the genus Kalanchoe in 1885 .
proof
literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe campanulata . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 155 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . Volume 18, 1881, p. 269 ( online ).
- ^ Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Paris . Volume 1, Paris 1885, p. 469.
Web links
- Photos of habitus, leaves and flowers of the species