Kalanchoe lubangensis
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Kalanchoe lubangensis is a species of Kalanchoe plant in the Crassulaceae family.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe lubangensis is a perennial , completely bare plant that reaches heights of growth of up to 80 centimeters. The simple, upright, stem-round shoots have a diameter of up to 1.2 centimeters at their base. The fleshy leaves are petiolate. The petiole , furrowed on the top, enlarged to the base and encompassing the stem, is up to 3.5 centimeters long. The egg-shaped lanceolate, lanceolate to elliptical leaf blade is up to 11.5 inches long and 4 inches wide. Occasionally, it is divided into two to three elongated segments at the base. Its tip is narrowed and somewhat pointed, the base narrowed to approximately rounded. The leaf margin is serrated with pointed teeth or irregularly notched or entire.
Generative characteristics
The upright to paniculate inflorescence reaches a length of 13 to 27 centimeters. The upright flowers are on 5 to 13 millimeter long peduncles . Your calyx tube is 0.25 to 0.5 millimeters long. The triangular, pointed calyx lobes are 2 to 4 millimeters long and 1.2 to 1.7 millimeters wide. The yellow corolla tube , rounded at the base , is square above and 13 to 18 millimeters long. Their egg-shaped, pointed, somewhat thorn-pointed corolla lobes are 2.5 to 4 millimeters long and 1.5 to 2.5 millimeters wide. The upper stamens protrude slightly from the flower. The elongated anthers are about 0.7 millimeters long. The linear, somewhat sanded-out nectar flakes are 3.5 to 5 millimeters long. The carpel is 11 to 12 mm and the stylus 3.5 to 4 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe lubangensis is common in Angola in the Huíla province .
The first description by Rosette Mercedes Saraiva Batarda Fernandes was published in 1980.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe lubangensis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 169 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Boletim da Sociedade Broteriana . Second Series, Volume 53, 1980, pp. 400-410.