Kalanchoe sanctula
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Kalanchoe sanctula is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
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Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe sanctula is a biennial to perennial , completely bare plant. Their stem-round, straight and upright shoots are simple and 20 to 50 centimeters high. The thick, fleshy leaves are petiolate. The almost round, slightly expanded petiole is 2 to 3 centimeters long. Your ovate-elongated to ovate-elliptical leaf blade is 6 to 8 inches long and 3 to 4 inches wide. It is yellowish green with brownish red edges along the edges and covered with spots of the same color on the underside. Its tip is wedge-shaped to slightly rounded, the base rounded. In young leaves it is flat, in mature leaves it is upright and forms a large auricle, making the leaves almost shield-shaped. The leaf margin is serrated regularly and bears numerous brood buds.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence consists of many-flowered cymes with even leaves and reaches a length of 15 to 20 centimeters. The pendulous, yellowish-white to purple-blue flowers are on slender, curved, 6 to 25 millimeter long peduncles . The somewhat square calyx tube is 3.5 to 4 millimeters long. The triangular, pointed calyx lobes are 4 to 5 millimeters long and 2.5 to 3 millimeters wide. The corolla is oblong cylindrical. The somewhat square corolla tube is suddenly narrowed towards the lower quarter and 20 to 30 millimeters long. Their obovate corolla lobes have an attached tip, are 6 to 8 millimeters long and 4 to 5 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached in the lower quarter of the corolla tube and protrude slightly from the flower. The egg-shaped anthers are 0.5 to 1 millimeter long. The trapezoidal nectar scales with two lobes at the top are 1.2 to 1.5 millimeters long and 0.8 to 1 millimeters wide. The elongated egg-shaped carpel has a length of 4 to 5 millimeters. The stylus is 16 to 23 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe sanctula is common in the south-east of Madagascar on wooded hills in sunny places.
The first description by Bernard M. Descoings was published in 1997.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe sanctula . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 180-181 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Journal de Botanique de la Société Botanique de France . Volume 4, 1997, p. 87.
Web links
- Photos of inflorescence