Kalanchoe garambiensis
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Kalanchoe garambiensis is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae). The specific epithet garambiensis refers to the occurrence of the species at Garahmi in Taiwan.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe garambiensis is a completely bare, herbaceous plant that reaches heights of 5 to 8 centimeters. The fleshy leaves are petiolate. The spatulate leaf blade is 1 to 2.8 inches long and 0.3 to 1.3 inches wide. Its tip is rounded and has an attached tip. The base is narrowly pointed towards the stem. The leaf margin is entire.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence is a loose, three to ten-flowered, even cymes . The ovate-elongated, pointed, glandular calyx lobes are about 5 millimeters long. The petals are yellow. The slender corolla tube is urn-shaped at its base and about 20 millimeters long. Their broad, rounded, egg-shaped corolla lobes are blunt, bluntly rounded or slightly pointed.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe garambiensis is common in Taiwan on rocks on the seashore.
The first description by Yûshun Kudô was published in 1930. The species is only poorly known. It is believed to be annual and rare.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe garambiensis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 161 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 91.
- ^ Journal of the Society of Tropical Agriculture . Volume 2, 1930, p. 235.
Web links
- Entry in the Flora of Taiwan
- Herbarium evidence