Kalanchoe grandiflora
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Kalanchoe grandiflora is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe grandiflora is a perennial , completely bald plant that reaches heights of 60 to 100 centimeters. The upright, branched shoots have a diameter of up to 2.5 centimeters. The sedentary to almost sedentary leaves are fleshy. The blue-violet, bluish green or glauke , elongated, broadly obovate, obovate to almost rhombic leaf blade is 4 to 7.5 inches long and 3 to 3.5 inches wide. Its tip is blunt to rounded, the base is narrowed. The leaf margin is serrated and serrated. The upper leaves are often spotted red. There is a waxy coating on the leaves that is easy to remove.
Generative characteristics
The almost sessile, loose inflorescence is a multi-flowered panicle with even leaves . The upright or spreading, light yellow to green-yellow flowers are on 12 to 18 millimeter long peduncles . Your calyx tube is 2.5 to 3.5 millimeters long. The ovate-lanceolate to elongated, pointed calyx tips are suddenly bent back and about 6 millimeters long. The square, bottle-shaped corolla tube , swollen at the base, is 12 to 14 millimeters long. Their ovate to obovate, blunt corolla lobes suddenly become long with an attached tip and are suddenly bent back. They have a length of about 12 millimeters and are 4 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached above the center of the corolla tube and protrude from the flower. The elongated anthers have tiny heady appendages. The linear nectar flakes have a length of about 4 millimeters. The elongated carpel has a length of about 4 millimeters. The stylus is about 4 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe grandiflora is common in India on slopes and rocky ground with nutrient-poor soils at altitudes of 1000 to 2000 meters.
The first description by Robert Wight and George Arnott Walker Arnott was published in 1834.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe grandiflora . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 163 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Prodromus Florae Peninsulae Indiae Orientalis . Volume 1, 1834, p. 359.
Web links
- Photo of the kind