Kalanchoe peteri

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Kalanchoe peteri
Systematics
Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order : Saxifragales (Saxifragales)
Family : Thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae)
Subfamily : Kalanchoideae
Genre : Kalanchoe
Type : Kalanchoe peteri
Scientific name
Kalanchoe peteri
Werderm.

Kalanchoe peteri is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).

description

Vegetative characteristics

Kalanchoe peteri is a perennial , bare, green plant. Your upright shoots are 60 to 130 centimeters long. The leaves that become glaucoma or glaucoma are petiolate. The leaf stalk, which is flattened and furrowed on the upper side, is 2 to 6 centimeters long. The elongated or egg-shaped leaf blade is up to 20 inches long and 10 to 16 inches wide. Its tip is blunt to rounded, the base truncated or eyelet. The leaf margin is notched, bluntly serrated or serrated and slightly indented towards the tip.

Generative characteristics

The inflorescence consists of paniculate cymes up to 20 centimeters in length. The upright flowers are on 5 to 17 millimeter long peduncles . Your calyx is green, the calyx tube 0.5 to 2 millimeters long. The lanceolate to triangular awl lobes are 7 to 11 millimeters long and 1.5 to 2.5 millimeters wide. The ivory-white corolla is greenish white in the lower part. The cylindrical corolla tube, slightly enlarged at its base, is 27 to 38 millimeters long. Their obovate corolla lobes have an attached tip. They are 10 to 16 millimeters long and 5 to 8 millimeters wide. The upper stamens protrude from the flower. The elongated anthers are 2 to 3 millimeters long. The linear-awl nectar flakes have a length of 4 to 13 millimeters and are about 0.5 millimeters wide. The linear-lanceolate carpel has a length of 12 to 18 millimeters. The stylus is 12 to 18 millimeters long.

Systematics and distribution

Kalanchoe peteri is common in Tanzania on rocky slopes at altitudes of 1700 to 2100 meters.

The first description by Erich Werdermann was published in 1936.

proof

literature

  • Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe peteri . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 174-175 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Repertory Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis . Volume 39, 1936, p. 271.

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