Kalanchoe schizophylla
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Kalanchoe schizophylla is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe schizophylla is a perennial , climbing, completely bald plant. Its climbing, stem-round, slender shoots are somewhat woody at the base and 3 to 8 meters long. The pinnate leaves are petiolate. The narrow, stem-encompassing petiole is 3 to 5 millimeters long. The shape of the leaf blade is variable. The base is narrowed oblong. The segments consist of six to eight pairs. They are linear, almost entire, blunt at the tip, bent back and 8 to 15 centimeters long.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence consists of very large, little-flowered panicles that carry brood buds. The pendulous flowers are on slender, curved, 4 to 8 millimeter long flower stalks . The bell-shaped calyx is green, the calyx tube 1.5 to 2 millimeters long. The triangular, pointed, thorn-pointed calyx lobes are 3 to 3.5 millimeters long and 2.7 to 3 millimeters wide. The urn-shaped to bell-shaped corolla is bright red to purple. The somewhat square corolla tube is 13 to 17 millimeters long. Their elongated egg-shaped, edged corolla lobes have a length of 1.5 to 4 millimeters and are about 2 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached below the center of the corolla tube and protrude quite far from the flower. The anthers are about 1 millimeter long. The somewhat rectangular nectar flakes have a length of 1.5 millimeters and are just as wide. The carpel has a length of about 7.5 millimeters. The protruding stylus is about 10 millimeters long.
The obovate seeds reach a length of about 0.7 millimeters.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe schizophylla is common in Madagascar in humid places in forests.
The first description as Kitchingia schizophylla by John Gilbert Baker was published in 1884. Henri Ernest Baillon placed the species in the genus Kalanchoe a year later .
proof
literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe schizophylla . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 181 .
Individual evidence
Web links
- Photo of a plant on Flickr