Kalanchoe peltata
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Kalanchoe peltata is a species of Kalanchoe plant in the Crassulaceae family.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe peltata is a perennial , completely bare plant that reaches heights of 100 to 200 centimeters. Their usually simple, slender shoots are erect, prostrate or prostrate-upright. The shield-shaped leaves are petiolate. The slender petiole , attached above the base of the blade, encompasses a bit of the stem and is 2 to 10 centimeters long. Their egg-shaped to triangular leaf blades are 3 to 12 inches long and 2.5 to 7 inches wide. Sometimes it is speckled black. Its tip is blunt and the base is rounded. The leaf margin is indistinctly notched to roughly indented.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence consists of loose, flat panicles and is 4 to 16 centimeters wide. The pendulous flowers are on thread-like, 0.6 to 4 millimeter long flower stalks . The pale green calyx is bell-shaped, the calyx tube 2 to 4.5 millimeters long. The egg-shaped to circular calyx lobes are 2 to 4 millimeters long. The corolla is whitish, pink, pink-yellow, yellow-green or bright red. The tubular-bell-shaped to urn-shaped corolla tube is 22 to 32 millimeters long. Their egg-shaped to circular corolla lobes are 6 to 10 millimeters long and about 6 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached above the center of the corolla tube and protrude from the flower. The kidney-shaped anthers consist of widely spaced lobes and are about 2 millimeters long. The obovate to rectangular nectar flakes are 1.3 to 2 millimeters long. The carpel has a length of 6 to 8 millimeters. The stylus is about 3 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe peltata is widespread in Madagascar in the rainforest and rainforest on shady and damp rocks at heights of up to 1600 meters.
The first description as Kitchingia peltata by John Gilbert Baker was published in 1883. Henri Ernest Baillon placed the species in the genus Kalanchoe in 1885 .
proof
literature
- Bernard Descoings : Kalanchoe peltata . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 174 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . Volume 20, 1883, pp. 140-141 ( online ).
- ^ Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Paris . Volume 1, 1885, p. 468 ( online ).
Web links
- Photo of the species in bloom
