Kalanchoe porphyrocalyx
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Kalanchoe porphyrocalyx is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe porphyrocalyx is a perennial , epiphytic or terrestrial, highly branched, herbaceous plant that reaches heights of up to 35 centimeters. Their slender, green, purple-tinged shoots are erect or prostrate-creeping and 5 to 35 centimeters long. The very polymorphic, bare leaves are sessile or stalked. The petiole is up to 6 inches long. Their linear, egg-shaped, obovate, elongated, oblong-round to circular leaf blade is 2 to 6 inches long and 0.6 to 4 inches wide. Its tip is blunt to rounded, the base is narrowed. The leaf margin is notched irregularly.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence consists of loose, little-flowered, even panicles and is 3 to 11 centimeters long. The hanging flowers are on 3 to 11 millimeter long flower stalks . The more or less dense glandular-hairy calyx is green with red to purple lines, the calyx tube 1.5 to 4 millimeters long. The lanceolate, triangular to egg-shaped, pointed calyx tips are 3 to 7 millimeters long and 3 to 5.5 millimeters wide. The bald or slightly downy-haired corolla is almost urn-shaped. The red to pink-pink, rarely lemon-yellow corolla tube is 10 to 30 millimeters long. Their yellow-green, orange, egg-shaped, suddenly bent back corolla lobes are 3 to 8 millimeters long and 2.5 to 6 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached above the center of the corolla tube and do not protrude from the flower. The egg-shaped anthers are 1 to 2 millimeters long. The linear to egg-shaped, sanded-out nectar flakes are 2 to 3 millimeters long and 0.7 to 1.6 millimeters wide. The elongated carpel has a length of 8 to 16 millimeters. The stylus is 7 to 16 millimeters long.
The winged seeds reach a length of about 0.7 millimeters.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe porphyrocalyx is common in central and northeast Madagascar in the rainforest.
The first description as Kitchingia porphyrocalyx 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 porphyrocalyx . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 176 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . Volume 20, 1883, p. 142 ( online ).
- ^ Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Paris . Volume 1, 1885, p. 469 ( online ).
Web links
- Photo of a plant in the natural location
