Kalanchoe farinacea
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Kalanchoe farinacea is a species of the genus Kalanchoe inthe thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae).
description
The persistent , completely bald and strong Kalanchoe farinacea reaches heights of growth of up to 30 centimeters. The white or whitish green, upright, sturdy shoots are stem-round and only sparsely branched. The bark is scaly and peeling when dry. The very thick, sessile leaves are pushed towards the shoot tips. Your obovate to circular leaf blade is 2 to 5.5 inches long and 1.5 to 3.5 inches wide. Their floury surface is covered with a white to whitish green, floury downy hair. The leaf blade is round at the tip and narrowed at the base. The pale pink leaf margin is entire.
The compact, floury-hairy inflorescence is an even panicle. The upright or spreading flowers sit on 12 to 14 millimeter long flower stalks . The calyx tube is about 1 millimeter long and ends in triangular, fleshy lobes that are 1 to 2 millimeters long and 1 to 1.5 millimeters wide. The corolla is bright red. The uniformly cylindrical, 10 to 15 millimeter long corolla tube has oval, elongated, pointed tips about 4 millimeters in size with an attached tip. The stamens are attached to the base of the corolla tube, whereby the upper stamens protrude from the corolla tube. Your egg-shaped anthers are broadly elongated. The linear, elongated nectar scales , rounded at the tip, are around 2 millimeters in size. The narrow elongated carpel is 4 to 8 millimeters long and the stylus about 4 millimeters long.
Systematics, distribution and endangerment
Kalanchoe farinacea is endemic to Socotra . It often grows on limestone plains in cracks at altitudes of 100 to 400 meters. The first description was in 1882 by Isaac Bayley Balfour . Kalanchoe farinacea is classified as Least Concern (LC) in the IUCN Red List of Endangered Species .
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe farinacea . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 161 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . Volume 11, Edinburgh 1882, p. 512.
- ^ World Conservation Monitoring Center 1998. Kalanchoe farinacea . In: 2007 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . IUCN 2007, accessed July 19, 2008.
