Kalanchoe elizae
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Kalanchoe elizae is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe elizae is a perennial , completely bald plant that reaches heights of 20 to 180 centimeters. Its single to few, red or pale green shoots are upright and strong. The green leaves are short stalked or almost sessile. The petiole is up to 1.5 inches long. Your broad, obovate, elongated, spatulate or almost circular leaf blade is 6.5 to 21 inches long and 2.1 to 12 inches wide. Their tip is rounded or blunt, the base rounded to wedge-shaped. The leaf margin is slightly notched, wavy or entire.
Generative characteristics
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The inflorescence consists of loose, pyramidal panicles and is 9 to 28 centimeters long. The slightly zygomorphic , slightly pendulous or spreading flowers are on 4 to 18 millimeter long peduncles . The bell-shaped calyx is dark red, the calyx tube 1.5 to 2.7 millimeters long. The triangular to lanceolate, pointed calyx lobes have a length of 8 to 10 millimeters and are about 3 millimeters wide. The corolla is dark yellow to yellow-orange to red. The almost cylindrical, indistinctly square, upwardly curved corolla tube is 21.5 to 45 millimeters long. Their elongated or egg-shaped elongated, towards the tip asymmetrical corolla lobes have a length of 10 to 16 millimeters and are 3.5 to 7 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached near the center of the corolla tube and protrude from the flower. The elongated to egg-shaped anthers are 1.5 to 2 millimeters long. The linear, elongated nectar flakes with two lobes at the tip or trimmed have a length of 1.6 to 6 millimeters and are about 2 millimeters wide. The ovate-lanceolate carpel has a length of 10 to 15 millimeters. The stylus is 15 to 30 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe elizae is common on rocks in the desert in Malawi and Mozambique .
The first description by Alwin Berger was published in 1903.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe elizae . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 160 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monthly for cactus science . Volume 13, 1903, p. 69.
