Kalanchoe ndotoenis
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Kalanchoe ndotoenis is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe ndotoenis is a persistent , succulent epiphyte . The branched, hanging, bare shoots are up to 20 centimeters long and have a diameter of up to 4 millimeters. The fleshy, bare leaves are sessile. The obovate leaf blade is about 8 inches long, 4 inches wide and about 4 millimeters thick. Its tip is wedge-shaped to rounded, the base is slightly rounded. The lower half of the leaf margin has entire margins and is notched above.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence is up to twelve-flowered cymes and reaches a length of up to 23 centimeters. The upright flowers are on 2 to 3 millimeter long peduncles . Your calyx tube is about 0.2 millimeters long. The triangular, green, downy-haired calyx tips are about 7 millimeters long and 1.5 millimeters wide. The downy-haired corolla tube is about 13 millimeters long and 2 to 3 millimeters wide. Their yellow, spread out, obovate, thorn-pointed corolla lobes are about 7 millimeters long and 5 millimeters wide. The stamens do not protrude from the flower. The anthers are about 0.7 millimeters long. The linear or slightly tapered nectar flakes have a length of about 2 millimeters. The carpel is about 6.5 mm and the stylus about 3 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe ndotoenis is distributed in Kenya in the Samburu District in the mountain forest at altitudes of 1200 meters.
The first description by Leonard Eric Newton was published in 1998.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe ndotoenis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 172 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Leonard E. Newton: Kalanchoe ndotoensis (Crassulaceae), a new epiphytic species in Kenya . In: Cactus and Succulent Journal . Volume 70, Number 2, Cactus and Succulent Society of America, 1998, pp. 85-87.