Kalanchoe laetivirens
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Kalanchoe laetivirens is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe laetivirens is a perennial plant that forms short-stemmed rosettes and reaches heights of 10 to 20 centimeters. Their short, stem-round shoots are bare and 4 to 8 millimeters in diameter. The thick, fleshy, densely arranged leaves are petiolate. The petiole -round, stem-encompassing leaf stalk is 4 to 8 inches long. Their elongated to elliptical, lengthwise like a gutter folded leaf blade is 7 to 15 inches long and 4 to 7 inches wide. Their tip is wedge-shaped, the base often enlarged to two rounded, upright auricles. The leaf margin is notched evenly. Numerous brood buds are formed on it.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence consists of many-flowered cymes with even leaves and reached a length of 10 to 20 centimeters. The pendulous flowers are on curved, 3 to 6 millimeter long flower stalks . The calyx is green or yellowish green to pink in color. The cylindrical calyx tube is 3.5 to 4 millimeters long. The triangular, pointed calyx lobes are 3 to 3.5 millimeters long and 2.2 to 2.5 millimeters wide. The corolla is greenish white, or greenish yellow, pink to purple-pink tinged. The cylindrical to square corolla tube is 13 to 16 millimeters long. Their ovoid-elongated rounded, upright corolla lobes are 7 to 9 millimeters long and 5 to 6 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached near the base of the corolla tube and protrude slightly from the flower. The egg-shaped anthers are about 0.8 millimeters long. The trapezoid-like, trimmed nectar flakes are 1 to 1.2 millimeters long and about 1 millimeter wide. The elongated carpel has a length of 4.5 to 5.5 millimeters. The stylus is 14 to 18 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe laetivirens is common in the southwest of Madagascar .
The first description by Bernard M. Descoings was published in 1997.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe laetivirens . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 166 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Journal de Botanique de la Société Botanique de France . Volume 4, 1997, p. 85.
