Kalanchoe marnieriana
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Kalanchoe marnieriana is a species of Kalanchoe plant in the Crassulaceae family.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe marnieriana is a perennial , completely bare, strongly branched plant that reaches heights of growth of up to 30 centimeters and forms tufts. Their initially creeping and rooting, red shoots , spotted in the lower parts , later ascend. They are two-ribbed between the nodes . The stalked leaves are densely packed near the shoot tips. The cylindrical petiole is 3 to 8 millimeters long. Their glauke , bluish, purple-spotted leaf blade is obovate to almost circular. It is 3 to 4 inches long and 2 to 3 inches wide. Its tip is rounded, the base somewhat heart-shaped and eyed. The leaf margin is almost entire and sometimes only slightly notched in the upper part. There are numerous brood buds on the teeth .
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence is equilateral, the peduncle 9 to 12 centimeters long. The pendulous flowers are on 10 to 15 millimeter long flower stalks . The calyx is green to green-purple, the calyx tube 9 to 11 millimeters long. The triangular, pointed calyx lobes have a length of 7 to 8.5 millimeters and are about 6 millimeters wide. The urn-shaped tubular corolla is yellow, orange to pink in color. The slightly octagonal corolla tube is 20 to 35 millimeters long. Their ovate-triangular, blunt corolla lobes have a length of 5 to 6 millimeters and are just as wide. The stamens are attached below the center of the corolla tube. Upper stamens protrude slightly from the flower. The round anthers are about 1.5 millimeters long. The triangular, elongated nectar flakes have a length of 0.7 to 1 millimeter and are 1 millimeter wide. The rounded carpel has a length of about 6 millimeters. The stylus is 15 to 18 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe marnieriana is common in the south-east of Madagascar on moist, rocky places.
The first description by Hermann Jacobsen was published in 1954.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe marnieriana . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 171 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Handbook of Succulent Plants. Description and culture of succulents with the exception of the Cactaceae . Volume 2, Gustav Fischer, Jena 1954, p. 835.
Web links
- Photos of the kind at davesgarden.com