Kalanchoe obtusa
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Kalanchoe obtusa is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe obtusa is a perennial plant that reaches heights of 10 to 15 centimeters. The bare shoots are erect to prostrate, the bare leaves are stalked. The half-stem-encompassing petiole is flat and 0.5 to 2 centimeters long. The egg-shaped, obovate or almost circular, green to reddish leaf blade is 2 to 7 inches long and 1 to 5 inches wide. Its tip is blunt, the base wedge-shaped or occasionally rounded. The leaf margin is entire, indented or slightly notched.
Generative characteristics
The more or less dense inflorescence is even and reaches a length of 2 to 7 centimeters. The upright flowers are 1 to 3 millimeter long peduncles . They are long with few, glandular hairs or bald. Your calyx tube is about 0.4 millimeters long. The lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, pointed calyx lobes are 3.5 to 5.5 millimeters long and 1 to 1.8 millimeters wide. The bright red corolla is light green on the lower parts. The corolla tube is 7 to 9.5 millimeters long. Their narrow to broad, oval-shaped, almost blunt corolla lobes have an attached tip. They have a length of 4.5 to 5.5 millimeters and are 2 to 3 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached near the center of the corolla tube and do not protrude from the flower. The elongated to almost circular anthers are 0.6 to 0.7 millimeters long. The linear, sanded-out nectar flakes have a length of about 1.5 to 2.5 millimeters and are about 0.3 millimeters wide. The linear-lanceolate carpel has a length of 6.5 to 7 millimeters. The stylus is 1.5 to 2.5 millimeters long.
The seeds are obovate.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe obtusa is widespread in the southeast of Kenya and southeast of Tanzania in evergreen to semi-deciduous forests, usually on limestone at heights of up to 450 meters.
The first description by Adolf Engler was published in 1895.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe obtusa . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 173 .