Kalanchoe rosei

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Kalanchoe rosei
Systematics
Nuclear eudicotyledons
Order : Saxifragales (Saxifragales)
Family : Thick-leaf family (Crassulaceae)
Subfamily : Kalanchoideae
Genre : Kalanchoe
Type : Kalanchoe rosei
Scientific name
Kalanchoe rosei
Raym.-Hamet & H.Perrier

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

description

Vegetative characteristics

Kalanchoe rosei is a perennial to biennial , completely bare plant that reaches heights of up to 1.8 meters. Its simple, upright shoots are brownish green. The polymorphic, gray-green to pale reddish, slightly spotted leaves are petiolate. The petiole is 2 to 16 millimeters long. Their thick, usually lanceolate to oblong lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, pinnate, spear-shaped, three-lobed leaf blade is 6 to 17 centimeters long and 0.5 to 1.5 centimeters wide. Its tip is pointed, the base wedge-shaped. The leaf margin is serrated and serrated and bears brood buds.

Generative characteristics

The inflorescence consists of loose panicles and becomes 15 to 30 centimeters long. The pendulous flowers are on slender, 15 to 25 millimeter long flower stalks . The half-stem-enclosing calyx is pink, the calyx tube 10 to 12 millimeters long. The triangular calyx lobes have a length of 5 to 6 millimeters and are just as wide. The tubular corolla is deep pink and yellow in color. The slightly square corolla tube is 24 to 30 millimeters long. Their ovate to lanceolate, blunt corolla lobes have a length of 5 to 6 millimeters and are just as wide. The stamens are attached below the center of the corolla tube and protrude from the flower. The egg-shaped, yellow anthers are about 2 millimeters long. The elongated, sanded-out nectar flakes have a length of about 1.6 millimeters and are 1 millimeter wide. The egg-shaped carpel has a length of 6 to 7 millimeters. The stylus is about 0.6 millimeters long.

Systematics and distribution

Kalanchoe rosei is common in Madagascar on damp rocks.

The first description by Raymond-Hamet and Henri Perrier de La Bâthie was published in 1914.

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literature

  • Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe rosei . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 179 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Annales du Musée Colonial de Marseille . 3rd Series, Volume 2, 1914, pp. 132-135.

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