Kalanchoe dixoniana
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Kalanchoe dixoniana is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe dixoniana is believed to be a perennial plant . The simple, upright, strong shoot is bare. The bare leaves are stalked. The thick petiole is about 2.3 millimeters long. The obovate leaf blade is about 11 inches long and 3.2 inches wide. Its tip is blunt, the base is narrowed. The leaf margin is slightly notched.
Generative characteristics
The little branched inflorescence is equilateral and has a very short inflorescence stalk . The flowers are on peduncles about 10 millimeters long . Their almost bell-shaped, long-haired calyx tube is about 1.3 millimeters long. The almost triangular, pointed, pointed calyx lobes are about 5.5 millimeters long and 2.5 millimeters wide. The white, somewhat tubular corolla tube is expanded below its center and about 12 millimeters long. Their ovate-lanceolate, thorn-pointed corolla lobes have a length of about 7.5 millimeters and are 2.2 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached above the center of the corolla tube and protrude from the flower. The linear, sanded-out nectar flakes have a length of about 2.6 millimeters and are 0.6 millimeters wide. The ovate-lanceolate carpel has a length of about 8 millimeters. The stylus is about 2.3 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe dixoniana is common in Thailand on rocks at altitudes of 1600 to 1800 meters.
The first description by Raymond-Hamet was published in 1914.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe dixoniana . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 156 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information 1914 . P. 281, Kew 1914.