Kalanchoe latisepala
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Kalanchoe latisepala is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of the thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe latisepala is a perennial plant that reaches heights of growth of 25 to 100 centimeters and is covered with a more or less dense indumentum of glandular hairs. The usually simple shoots are upright, woody and have a diameter of 1 to 1.5 centimeters at the base. They are green, yellow-green to purple-brown and stem-round to almost square at the top. The bark of the shoots is smooth and paper-like. The fleshy, keeled leaves are usually sessile. The green to yellow-green, red-rimmed, ovoid, obovate. elongated to oblong spatulate, bald or glandular-long-haired leaf blade is 4.5 to 12.5 inches long and 3.5 to 9 inches wide. Its tip is blunt to rounded, the base wedge-shaped and narrowed halfway around the stem. The leaf margin is irregularly notched or serrated.
Generative characteristics
The usually dense inflorescence is hairy long, even and 9 to 18 centimeters wide. The upright flowers are on 5 to 10 millimeter long peduncles . Your green calyx is glandular and hairy, the calyx tube is 2.5 to 5 millimeters long. The elongated to ovate, pointed, fleshy calyx tips are 7 to 13 millimeters long and 4 to 6 millimeters wide. The white or greenish white petals are glandular and downy. The almost urn-shaped to four-edged crown tube at the bottom is square-edged and 30 to 35 millimeters long above. Their egg-shaped or elliptical-egg-shaped, pointed and an attached tip, spread or suddenly bent back corolla lobes have a length of 12 to 15 millimeters and are 6.5 to 9 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached above the center of the corolla tube. The upper stamens protrude from the flower. The egg-shaped anthers are 1 to 2 millimeters long. The linear nectar flakes are 3.5 to 7 millimeters long. The carpel has a length of 3.5 to 7 millimeters. The stylus is 17.5 to 20 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe latisepala is common in Malawi and Mozambique on rocks in the desert.
The first description by Nicholas Edward Brown was published in 1908.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe latisepala . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 167 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information . Kew 1908, p. 435.
Web links
- Photo of the flower on Flickr