Kalanchoe manginii
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Kalanchoe manginii is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Kalanchoe manginii is a creeping dwarf shrub and reaches a height of 40 centimeters. The numerous, slender, woody, prostrate shoots are clustered. The end of the instincts is erect. The shoots that cannot flower are downy hairy and have glands, while the shoots that can flower are bare. The sitting, very succulent leaves are up to 8 millimeters thick, glabrous to tiny downy hairy, green, obovate to oblong and circular and 1 to 3 centimeters long and 0.6 to 1.5 centimeters wide. The tip of the leaf is very blunt, narrowed at the base and not encompassing the stem. The leaf margin is whole or slightly notched in the upper part.
The inflorescence is a loose, little flowered panicle with brood buds . The pendulous flowers sit on 0.7 to 1 centimeter long flower stalks . The green to greenish red calyx tube is 0.4 to 0.8 millimeters long and ends in egg-shaped, pointed lobes that are 6.5 to 9 millimeters long and 2.4 to 3.5 millimeters wide. The corolla is urn-shaped, red-orange to bright red. The 20 to 25 millimeter long corolla tube has egg-shaped tips with attached tips 3.5 to 4.5 millimeters long and 4.5 to 5 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached near the base of the corolla tube and all protrude from the corolla tube. The anthers are kidney-shaped and about 1.6 millimeters long. The linear nectar flakes are 1.8 millimeters long and wide. The stylus is between 14 and 17 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe manginii is common in central Madagascar on dry and rocky slopes at altitudes of up to 2000 meters. It was first described in 1912 by Raymond-Hamet and Joseph Marie Henri Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie .
Bryophyllum manginii is a synonym .
proof
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe manginii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 170 .
