Kalanchoe integrifolia
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Kalanchoe integrifolia is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe integrifolia is a perennial , richly branched plant that reaches heights of 50 to 100 centimeters. The woody, upright, strong shoots have a diameter of up to 2 centimeters. The bare, sessile, very thick, fleshy leaves are huddled together at the shoot tips. The frosted, waxy gray, oblong obovate-spatulate to semicylindrical leaf blade is 3 to 11 centimeters long and 0.8 to 2.5 centimeters wide. Their tip is blunt to wedge-shaped, the base gradually narrowed. The leaf margin is entire.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence is a dense panicle with a length of 2 to 5 centimeters. The stiff, upright peduncle is 8 to 25 inches long. The upright flowers are on red, fleshy, 2.5 to 6 millimeter long peduncles . Its green calyx is soft, glandular and hairy and the calyx tube 0.2 to 1.4 millimeters long. The ovate-triangular calyx lobes are 1.2 to 3.5 millimeters long and about 2 millimeters wide. The white, yellowish, pink to dull red corolla tube urn-shaped and glabrous to glandular-hairy. It is 2.5 to 5 millimeters long. Their oblong obovate corolla lobes have a length of 3.5 to 6 millimeters and are just as wide. The stamens are attached above the center of the corolla tube and do not protrude from the flower. The kidney-shaped anthers are 0.8 to 1 millimeter long. The linear-triangular nectar flakes have a length of 1.7 to 2.5 millimeters and are 0.8 to 1.2 millimeters wide. The carpel has a length of 3.5 to 5.5 millimeters. The stylus is 1.2 to 1.9 millimeters long.
The obovate seeds reach a length of about 1.5 millimeters.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe integrifolia is distributed in Madagascar on primary rock rocks at altitudes of 1200 to 2000 meters.
The first description by John Gilbert Baker was published in 1887.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe integrifolia . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 164 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . Volume 22, 1887, p. 471.
Web links
- Photo of the species at the natural site