Kalanchoe lateritia
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Kalanchoe lateritia is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe lateritia is a perennial , downy-haired and glandular covered plant that reaches heights of 20 to 150 centimeters. The usually simple shoots are erect, prostrate-upright or prostrate. The fleshy leaves are almost sessile or stalked. The flattened petiole is furrowed on top and 0.5 to 5 centimeters wide. The bald or glandular-downy-haired, ovate-elongated, obovate or semicircular, spatulate to linear leaf blade is 3.5 to 21 inches long and 12.5 inches wide. Their tip is rounded or blunt, the base rounded to wedge-shaped and rarely trimmed. The leaf margin is double notched, notched or almost entire.
Generative characteristics
The very dense rust-colored, downy-haired glandular inflorescence is an even cymes with a length of 5 to 30 centimeters. The upright flowers are 1 to 5 millimeter long flower stalks . Its green calyx has tiny red stripes and the calyx tube is 0.3 to 1.5 millimeters long. The elongated egg-shaped to elongated lanceolate, approximately pointed calyx lobes are 3.5 to 9 millimeters long and 1 to 3 millimeters wide. The red, reddish orange, salmon pink or pale yellow petals are yellowish green in the lower part. The cylindrical corolla tube is inflated in the lower half and 8.5 to 14 millimeters long. Their ovate or elliptical, narrowed or suddenly ending with a long pointed tip have a length of 4.5 to 8.5 millimeters and are 2 to 6 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached above the center of the corolla tube and do not protrude from the flower. The egg-shaped anthers are 0.7 to 1 millimeter long. The linear, blunt nectar flakes are 1.2 to 4 millimeters long and 0.2 to 0.4 millimeters wide. The linear-lanceolate carpel has a length of 4.5 to 10 millimeters. The stylus is 1 to 2.5 millimeters long.
The elongated, linear seeds reach a length of about 1 millimeter.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe lateritia is widespread in Central and East Africa in the (semi) deciduous to evergreen forest and bushland on sandy to rocky soils at heights of up to 2000 meters. It has run wild in Queensland , Australia .
The first description by John Gilbert Baker was published in 1887.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe lateritia . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 166-167 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . Volume 22, 1887, p. 471.
