Kalanchoe longifolia
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Kalanchoe longifolia is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe longifolia is a perennial plant that reaches heights of 20 to 60 centimeters. The simple or branched, upright shoots have a diameter of up to 1.5 centimeters at their base. Young shoots are green and finely downy, old ones are reddish and glabrous. The fleshy, simple or occasionally three-part, green leaves are petiolate. The leaf stalk , furrowed on the top, is 2.5 to 7 centimeters long. The leaf blade is glabrous on the upper side and finely glandular-hairy and balding on the underside. It is 7.5 to 14 inches long and 3.5 to 6 inches wide. Its tip is blunt, the base wedge-shaped or rounded. The leaf margin is thickened and serrated to serrated.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence reaches a length of up to 15 centimeters and is sparsely covered with a long indumentum . The upright flowers are sparsely covered with short glandular hairs and stand on about 2 millimeter long flower stalks , which are short glandular-hairy. Its green cup is divided near the base. The linear-lanceolate, slightly pointed calyx-lobes are about 8 millimeters long and 2 millimeters wide. The green to pale green, cylindrical corolla tube is square in the upper part and about 13 millimeters long. Their yellow, oblong lanceolate, pointed corolla lobes are about 8 millimeters long and 4 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached above the center of the corolla tube and protrude slightly from the flower. The anthers are green. The awkward nectar flakes have a length of about 4 millimeters. The carpel is including pen about 9 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe longifolia is widespread in Thailand on limestone rocks at heights of 300 meters.
The first description by Patrick Geddes was published in 1929.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe longifolia . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 169 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information . Kew 1929, p. 112.