Kalanchoe hildebrandtii
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Kalanchoe hildebrandtii is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe hildebrandtii is a perennial , branched shrub that reaches heights of 1 to 4 meters and is more or less densely covered with tiny star-shaped hairs. The woody shoots are upright and heavily branched. The leaves are stalked. The cylindrical petiole is runny and 3 to 8 millimeters long. The glauke to greenish, thick, egg-shaped to rounded leaf blade is 1.5 to 5 inches long and 1 to 3.5 inches wide. Its tip is blunt to rounded, the base suddenly wedge-shaped. The leaf margin is entire.
Generative characteristics
The loose inflorescence is a panicle and reaches a length of 8 to 35 centimeters. The upright, fleshy flowers are on 1.5 to 4 millimeter long peduncles . Your calyx is green, the calyx tube about 0.5 millimeters long. The somewhat triangular, pointed calyx lobes are 1.2 to 2.5 millimeters long and just as wide. The white, pale green to yellow petals are sparsely hairy. The urn-shaped corolla tube is 3 to 5 millimeters long. Their egg-shaped, blunt corolla lobes are 2.2 to 3.6 millimeters long and 1.2 to 2 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached above the center of the corolla tube and do not or hardly protrude from the flower. The kidney-shaped anthers are 0.3 to 0.4 millimeters long. The more or less rectangular nectar flakes have a length of 1 to 1.5 millimeters. The carpel has a length of 0.8 to 1.5 millimeters. The stylus is 0.8 to 1.5 millimeters long.
The seeds are obovate.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe hildebrandtii is distributed in the south and southwest of Madagascar in dry bush on different soils and on rocks.
The first description by Henri Ernest Baillon was published in 1885.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe hildebrandtii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 164 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Paris . Volume 1, 1885, p. 468.
Web links
- Herbarium evidence
- Photos of the kind at davesgarden.com