Kalanchoe grandidieri
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Kalanchoe grandidieri is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe grandidieri is a very strong, perennial , completely bare shrub that reaches heights of growth of up to 3 meters. The upright, whitish, somewhat branched shoots are 2 to 7 centimeters in diameter and have a resinous bark. The seated, very fleshy leaves are hard and heavy. The elongated, obovate to spatulate leaf blade is 4 to 15 centimeters long, 2 to 7 centimeters wide and up to 1 centimeter thick. Its tip is blunt and has an attached tip. The base is narrowed, the leaf margin entire.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence is a narrow thyrse and reaches a length of 20 to 50 centimeters. The inflorescence stalk is 40 to 60 centimeters long. The massive, upright to nodding flowers are on fleshy, 6 to 8 millimeter long peduncles . Your bell-shaped calyx is green, the calyx tube 1 to 3.5 millimeters long. The broadly triangular, pointed calyx lobes are 1 to 4 millimeters long and just as wide. The fleshy petals are purple. The urn-shaped, sharp four-edged corolla tube is 12 to 25 millimeters long and has a diameter of 7 to 10 millimeters. Their egg-shaped corolla lobes have a pointed tip. They have a length of 4 to 7.5 millimeters and are 4 to 5.5 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached above the center of the corolla tube and do not protrude from the flower. The egg-shaped, yellow anthers are about 2 millimeters long. The more or less rectangular nectar flakes have a length of about 2 millimeters. The oval-elongated carpel is 9 to 12 millimeters long. The stylus is 5 to 6 millimeters long.
The elongated seeds reach a length of 1 to 4 millimeters.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe grandidieri is widespread on limestone rocks in the southwest of Madagascar .
The first description by Henri Ernest Baillon was published in 1888.
proof
literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe grandidieri . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 163 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Histoire Physique, Naturelle et Politique de Madagascar . 1888, plate 57.
Web links
- Photo of the species at the natural site
