Kalanchoe longiflora
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Kalanchoe longiflora var. Coccinea |
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Kalanchoe longiflora is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe longiflora is a perennial , completely bare, loose, succulent plant that can reach heights of up to 40 centimeters. The four-edged, strong shoots are upright with prostrate, upright branches. The leaves are sessile or have a short stalk. The stem-embracing petiole is 1 to 15 millimeters long. The gray-green and dense frosted or green and red-purple-edged to completely red-violet leaf blade is ovate-elongated, obovate to almost circular. It is 4 to 8 inches long and 3 to 8 inches wide. Its tip is blunt to rounded, the base wedge-shaped. The leaf margin is whole in the lower part, notched in the upper part or it has a few rounded, cup-like teeth.
Generative characteristics
The many-flowered inflorescence are ebony . The upright flowers are 1 to 2 millimeter long flower stalks . Her green chalice is tinted red-violet. The calyx tube is about 1 millimeter long. The narrow, triangular, pointed calyx tips are 2 to 3 millimeters long. The green, yellowish green, yellow to orange-colored corolla-tube is elongated, ampoule-shaped to almost cylindrical-square and 11 to 17 millimeters long. Their ovate to lanceolate blunt corolla lobes are 2 to 4.5 millimeters long and 2 to 3 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached above the center of the corolla tube and do not protrude from the flower. The egg-shaped-round anthers are 0.7 to 1.2 millimeters long. The linear, blunt nectar flakes have a length of 3 to 4 millimeters and are about 0.4 millimeters wide. The egg-shaped-lanceolate carpel has a length of 11 to 13 millimeters. The stylus is about 6 millimeters long.
The seeds reach a length of about 0.8 millimeters.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe longiflora is widespread on rocks in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal .
The first description by Rudolf Schlechter was published in 1903.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe longiflora . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 168-169 .
