Kalanchoe glaucescens
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Kalanchoe glaucescens is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of the thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe glaucescens is a perennial , bare, frosted plant that reaches heights of 30 to 120 centimeters. Their shoots are erect or prostrate at the base-erect. The leaves are stalked. The slightly flattened petiole is furrowed on the top and 0.5 to 2.5 centimeters long. He is easily detached from the drive. The glauke or glauk becoming, narrow to broadly ovate, obovate leaf blade is up to 10 centimeters long and 7 centimeters wide. Its tip is pointed to blunt, the base wedge-shaped. The leaf margin is bluntly serrate to notched and only rarely has it almost entire margins.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence is a panicle cyme and reaches a length of about 25 centimeters. The upright flowers are on 2 to 8 millimeter long peduncles . Your calyx tube is 0.2 to 1 millimeter long. The linear-lanceolate to linear-awl calyx lobes are 2 to 6 millimeters long and 1 to 2 millimeters wide. The orange-yellow to pink, vermilion, blood-red or scarlet petals are greenish in the lower part. The corolla tube is 5 to 14 millimeters long. Their lanceolate, egg-shaped, pointed corolla lobes have an attached tip and are 3 to 6.5 millimeters long and 1 to 2.5 millimeters wide. The stamens do not protrude from the flower. The elongated anthers are 0.6 to 0.9 millimeters long. The linear nectar flakes have a length of 2 to 3.5 millimeters and are about 2 millimeters wide. The linear-lanceolate carpel has a length of 4.5 to 10 millimeters. The stylus is 1 to 2 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe glaucescens is common in Central and East Africa , Sudan , Ethiopia , Somalia and Arabia in dry, open bushland, thickets, rocky hillsides and in bushland along rivers at altitudes of 550 to 2100 meters.
The first description by James Britten was published in 1871.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe glaucescens . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 162 .