Kalanchoe olivacea
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Kalanchoe olivacea is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe olivacea is probably a perennial , bare, completely olive-brown plant that reaches heights of 20 to 100 centimeters. The thick, fleshy shoots are erect and terete. The fleshy leaves are almost sessile. The egg-shaped, obovate, elliptical to broadly lanceolate leaf blade is 5 to 12.5 inches long and 2 to 5 inches wide. It is often dotted with blood-red spots. The upper leaves are smaller. The spreader tip is blunt, the base wedge-shaped. The leaf margin is whole or irregularly serrated.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence is a panicley cyme . The upright flowers stand on peduncles encased in densely glandular, sticky hair . Their free, lanceolate, pointed to pointed calyx lobes are 4 to 8 millimeters long and 1 to 1.8 millimeters wide. The white corolla is sometimes slightly pink. The corolla tube extended to the base is 12 to 14 millimeters long. Their oval, elongated, pointed corolla lobes have an attached point. They have a length of 6 to 9 millimeters. The white, linear, slightly two-toothed nectar flakes are about 3 millimeters long. The egg-shaped carpel has a length of about 5 millimeters.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe olivacea is widespread in India in the Dekkan and the Western Ghats between rocks on rocky soils in damp and shady places at altitudes of 1200 to 1400 meters.
The first description by Nicol Alexander Dalzell was published in 1861.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe olivacea . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 173 .