Kalanchoe suarezensis
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Kalanchoe suarezensis is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe suarezensis is a perennial or biennial plant. Their strong, stem-round shoots have a diameter of 2 to 2.5 centimeters and are 40 to 60 centimeters high. The thick, densely packed, gray-green, glaucous , bent-back leaves are petiolate. The thick, furrowed at the top and thickened towards the base, the petiole has a diameter of 6 to 7 millimeters and is 1 to 5 centimeters long. Your lanceolate leaf blade is 12 to 15 inches long and 5 to 10 inches wide. Its tip is narrowed, the base narrowed to truncated. The leaf margin is serrated coarse and irregularly. It has brood buds near the tip of the leaf.
Generative characteristics
The paniculate to evenly shaped inflorescence is multi-flowered. The pendulous flowers are on slender, 15 to 20 millimeter long flower stalks . The calyx is red to reddish purple. The cylindrical goblet tube , rounded at its base, is 12 to 16 millimeters long. The pointed, expanded or recurved calyx lobes have a length of 8 to 10 millimeters. The corolla is pink to yellow, the corolla-tube spherical, somewhat square and 23 to 26 millimeters long. Their bent back, sharply pointed, sparsely glandular-hairy corolla lobes have a length of 10 to 12 millimeters and are 3 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached below the center of the corolla tube and do not protrude from the flower. The black, spearhead shaped at their base anthers are 1 to 1.5 millimeters long. The square nectar flakes , heart-shaped at their tips, are about 2 millimeters long and 1.5 millimeters wide. The elongated carpel has a length of 8 to 10 millimeters. The stylus is 15 to 25 millimeters long.
The cylindrical seeds reach a length of 0.3 to 1 millimeter.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe suarezensis is widespread on limestone cliffs in the north of Madagascar .
The first description by Henri Perrier de La Bâthie was published in 1928.
proof
literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe suarezensis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 183 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Archives de Botanique, Bulletin Mensuel . Volume 2, 1928, pp. 21-22.