Kalanchoe mitejea
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Kalanchoe mitejea is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe mitejea is a presumably perennial , completely bald, glauke plant that reaches heights of 50 to 300 centimeters. The upright shoots are strong, the leaves are petiolate. The slender, round petiole is up to 5 centimeters long. The almost ovate to heart-shaped leaf blade is usually concave and boat-shaped. It is 15 to 16 inches long and 5 to 6 inches wide. The upper side of the leaf is glaucous, the underside pale green and usually mottled purple or maroon. The tip of the spade is pointed to pointed. The leaf margin is notched whole to a little tiny.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence is a loose, many-flowered cyme and reaches a length of 20 to 30 centimeters. The upright flowers are on 4 to 15 millimeter long, slender pedicels . Your calyx tube is 0.5 to 1.3 millimeters long. The triangular to lanceolate awl, pointed calyx lobes are 2 to 3.2 millimeters long and 1.2 to 2 millimeters wide. The presentation plate-shaped corolla is enlarged towards the base. The corolla tube is 17 to 22 millimeters long. Their lanceolate-egg-shaped to obovate, blunt corolla lobes have an attached tip. They are 4.5 to 6.5 millimeters long and 2.5 to 4 millimeters wide. The stamens do not extend all or only slightly from the flower out. The elongated anthers are 1.1 to 1.3 millimeters long. The linear, edged to three-column nectar flakes are 2 to 4 millimeters long. The ovoid to linear-pfriemliche carpel is 10 to 14 millimeters, and the pen 6 to 8 millimeters long.
The elongated seeds reach a length of about 1 millimeter.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe mitejea is common in northern Uganda , Kenya and northern Tanzania in wooded grasslands, scrub and shrubbery, on sandy or humus soils and occasionally on rocky slopes at altitudes of 250 to 2100 meters.
The first description by Alice Leblanc and Raymond-Hamet was published in 1913.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe mitejea . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 172 .