Kalanchoe stenosiphon
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Kalanchoe stenosiphon is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe stenosiphon is a perennial , completely bald plant that reaches heights of 30 to 60 centimeters. The shoots are round, the leaves are petiolate. The lanceolate, reddish green leaf blade is about 10 centimeters long and 1.5 centimeters wide. Its tip is pointed, the relatively broad base wedge-shaped. The leaf margin is entire.
Generative characteristics
The loose inflorescence consists of elongated, little-flowered panicles up to 60 centimeters in length. The upright flowers are on 5 to 12 millimeter long peduncles . Their calyx is almost non-existent. The lanceolate, slightly pointed, somewhat membranous calyx lobes are about 6.5 millimeters long and 1.5 to 2.8 millimeters wide. The yellow-green, narrowly conical corolla-tube is strongly inflated and truncated at the bottom, very slender in the upper part and 14 to 16 millimeters long. Their lanceolate-linear, pointed corolla lobes have a length of 7 to 11 millimeters and are 1.3 to 2 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached above the center of the corolla tube and do not protrude from the flower. The linear, pointed nectar flakes are 3.5 to 5 millimeters long. The carpel has a length of 10 to 12 millimeters. The stylus is 2 to 2.5 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe stenosiphon is common in Ethiopia on limestone slopes at altitudes from 1600 to 2300 meters.
The first description by James Britten was published in 1871.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe stenosiphon . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 182 .