Kalanchoe humilis
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Kalanchoe humilis is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe humilis is a perennial , completely bare plant that reaches heights of 80 to 100 centimeters. The simple or slightly branched shoots are upright or prostrate at their base. They rise from an almost horizontal, rhizome-like, woody base. The sedentary or almost sedentary leaves are fleshy and rather flat. The dull pale green, occasionally yellowish, obovate to spatulate leaf blade is 1.5 to 13 inches long and 1 to 6 inches wide. It has reddish markings and is initially frosted. Its tip is blunt, rounded to slightly truncated. The base is wedge-shaped. The purple-colored leaf margin is whole to blunt notched.
Generative characteristics
The very spreading, frosted inflorescence is a multi-flowered panicle and reaches a length of 12 to 38 centimeters. The upright or horizontal flowers are on 2 to 15 millimeter long flower stalks . Your calyx is purple, the calyx tube about 0.5 millimeters long. The broadly triangular, pointed, glaucous calyx lobes are 1 to 1.5 millimeters long and 0.8 to 1 millimeters wide. The pale greenish to lilac-colored and purple-veined, as well as showing longitudinal markings, more or less square, at the base hardly expanded corolla-tube is 4.5 to 5 millimeters long. Their elongated, blunt corolla lobes have an attached tip and are 1.7 to 3 millimeters long and 1 to 2 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached above the center of the corolla tube. The upper stamens protrude from the flower. The elongated or almost circular anthers are 0.6 to 1.2 millimeters long. The linear, forked nectar flakes are 1.5 to 3 millimeters long. The elongated, lanceolate carpel has a length of 4.5 to 5.5 millimeters. The stylus is 0.5 to 1 millimeter long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe humilis is distributed in Tanzania , Malawi and Mozambique between rocks in cracks at heights of 1200 to 1400 meters.
The first description by James Britten was published in 1871.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe humilis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 164 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Photo of the species at Huntington Botanical Gardens