Kalanchoe rubella

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

Kalanchoe rubella is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae). The specific epithet rubella comes from Latin , means 'reddish' and refers to the color of the corolla.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Kalanchoe rubella is a completely bare, perennial plant that reaches heights of 1 to 2 meters. The shoots are covered with numerous white lenticels . The stalked, fleshy leaves are pinnate unpaired . The widened stalk is broad and encompassing the stem and about 5 centimeters long. The three to nine seated or clearly stalked partial leaves are spotted dark green and white. The asymmetrically elongated egg-shaped, slightly red on the underside leaf blade is 4 to 12 inches long and 2 to 5 inches wide. The tip of the leaf is blunt, the base wedge-shaped. The leaf margins are deeply notched.

Inflorescences and flowers

The inflorescence is a loose panicle with about 100 pendulous flowers and an inflorescence stalk about 30 centimeters long . The pink flower stalks are 12 to 23 millimeters long. The slightly bell-shaped, membranous calyx is yellow-green with red-purple lines. The calyx tube is 14 to 16 millimeters long. Their triangular, pointed, thorn-pointed calyx tips are 6 to 8 millimeters long and 7 to 8.5 millimeters wide. The corolla is bright red, orange to yellow. The more or less cylindrical, 22 to 23 millimeters long corolla tube has elongated semicircular, pointed tips 5 to 6 millimeters long and just as wide. The stamens are attached below the center of the corolla tube and do not protrude from the corolla tube. The egg-shaped, sanded anthers are about 2.5 millimeters in size. The linear, elongated nectar flakes are about 2.5 millimeters long and 0.7 millimeters wide. The carpel is 5-6 millimeters, of the stylus 15 to 18 millimeters long.

Systematics and distribution

Kalanchoe rubella is common in central and eastern Madagascar in humid places in forests.

The first description as Bryophyllum rubellum by John Gilbert Baker was published in 1889. Raymond-Hamet placed the species in the genus Kalanchoe in 1915 .

Kalanchoe rubella is closely related to Kalanchoe prolifera and Kalanchoe pinnata .

proof

literature

Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe rubella . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 180 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 206.
^ John Gilbert Baker: Further Contributions to the Flora of Madagascar . In: Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . Volume 25, number 171, 1889, p. 314 ( online ).
^ Raymond-Hamet, Henri Perrier de La Bâthie: Troisième contribution à l'étude des Crassulacées malgaches . In: Annales du Musée Colonial de Marseille . 3rd Series, Volume 3, 1915, pp. 111-114 ( online ).

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[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 206.

[2] John Gilbert Baker: Further Contributions to the Flora of Madagascar . In: Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . Volume 25, number 171, 1889, p. 314 ( online ).

[3] Raymond-Hamet, Henri Perrier de La Bâthie: Troisième contribution à l'étude des Crassulacées malgaches . In: Annales du Musée Colonial de Marseille . 3rd Series, Volume 3, 1915, pp. 111-114 ( online ).