Kalanchoe pumila
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Kalanchoe pumila is a species of Kalanchoe plant in the Crassulaceae family.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe pumila is a perennial herbaceous plant that forms dense clusters and sometimes grows epiphytically . It is completely bare and reaches heights of 20 to 30 centimeters. The shoots are upright, heavily branched and creeping. The often densely packed, fleshy leaves are almost sessile and obovate. The leaf blade , completely covered with very fine, floury, white wax is 2 to 4 centimeters long and 1.5 to 2 centimeters wide. Its tip is blunt to almost pointed, the base wedge-shaped. The purple edge of the leaf is notched in the upper part.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescences are little-flowered, panicles between 2 and 7 centimeters wide . The upright flowers sit on covered, 6 to 10 millimeter long flower stalks . The green or red-purple calyx-tube is 0.5 to 1 millimeter long and has triangular to lanceolate, pointed tips 3 to 5 millimeters long and 1.5 to 2.6 millimeters wide. The bell-shaped, red to purple or pink corolla tube is 4 to 8.5 millimeters long and has spread, obovate to elongated tips 7 to 10 millimeters long and 3 to 5 millimeters wide. The petals have an attached tip. The kidney-shaped anthers are between 0.5 and 0.7 millimeters long. The stylus is 8 to 10 mm, the carpel about 1.5 millimeters long. The sanded nectar flakes are rectangular to elongated.
Systematics, number of chromosomes and distribution
Kalanchoe pumila is common in central Madagascar on rocks at altitudes around 2000 meters. The first description was in 1883 by John Gilbert Baker .
The chromosome number is .
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe pumila . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 178 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . Volume 20, p. 139, London 1883
- ^ F. Friedmann: Sur de nouveaux nombres chromosomiques dans le genre Kalanchoë (Crassulacées) à Madagascar . In: Candollea . Volume 26, number 1, 1971, pp. 103-107 ( PDF ; 217 kB).
