Kalanchoe sexangularis
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Kalanchoe sexangularis is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe sexangularis is a barely succulent , persistent , completely bald plant that reaches heights of 20 to 100 centimeters. Their single or few, simple, upright, round, reddish shoots are somewhat two- to six-sided and arise from a woody base. The fleshy leaves are more or less clearly stalked. The rutty petiole is 4 to 45 millimeters long. On the lower leaves it does not encompass the stem, but on the upper leaves it is clearly encompassing the stem. The broadly elliptical, oblong or egg-shaped, green to deep ruby red leaf blade is 5 to 13 inches long and 3 to 8 inches wide. Their tip is rounded or blunt. The base of the lower leaves is heart-shaped, that of the upper is wedge-shaped. The leaf margin is roughly notched or wavy-notched or with one to four bluntly toothed lobes.
Generative characteristics
The loose inflorescence consists of flat-topped panicles up to 30 centimeters in length. The upright, green-yellow to bright yellow flowers are on 2 to 7 millimeter long peduncles . Your green calyx tube is 0.5 to 2 millimeters long. The triangular, pointed calyx lobes are 1.5 to 2.2 millimeters long and about 1.2 millimeters wide. The pale pink, square-cylindrical to almost pyramidal corolla tube is enlarged in the lower half and 8 to 13 millimeters long. Their salmon-colored, broadly egg-shaped to almost circular corolla lobes are narrowed or rounded at their tips and have a length of 2 to 4 millimeters and are 1.5 to 3 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached to the tip of the corolla tube. Upper stamens protrude from the flower. The almost circular anthers are 0.4 to 1 millimeter long. The linear-lanceolate, pointed nectar flakes are 1.6 to 4 millimeters long. The carpel has a length of 6.5 to 10 millimeters. The stylus is 1.7 to 4 millimeters long.
The seeds reach a length of 1 to 1.3 millimeters.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe sexangularis is common in Zimbabwe , Mozambique and South Africa on rocky slopes in the shade or partial shade of trees or bushes in bushland.
The first description by Nicholas Edward Brown was published in 1913.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe sexangularis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 182 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information . Kew 1913, p. 120.
