Kalanchoe synsepala
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Kalanchoe synsepala is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae). It is the only stolon-forming species in the genus.
description
Kalanchoe synsepala is a perennial , runners-forming plant. Their upright or prostrate-upright, always simple shoots are woody and very strong. They are usually very short, but sometimes can reach a length of up to 40 centimeters. The few leaves are in terminal rosettes . They are seated to almost seated, fleshy, very thick and strong. The bald or short hairy, ovate-spatulate leaf blade is 6 to 15 inches long and 4 to 7 inches wide. It is blunt or somewhat circular and rounded at the tip. At the base it is narrowed and encompasses the stem. The leaf margin is entire or wavy-serrated with stiff teeth, sometimes deeply cut.
The inflorescence is axillary and usually consists of two opposing, very dense, even cymes 2 to 9 centimeters long. The 15 to 30 centimeter long peduncle is hairy-glandular in the upper part. The upright flowers sit on 3 to 12 millimeter long flower stalks . The bell-shaped, greenish, hairy-glandular calyx-tube is 2.5 to 4 millimeters long and ends in triangular, pointed-thorn-pointed lobes that are 1 to 2 millimeters long and 1.7 to 2.3 millimeters wide. The white, pink to purple corolla is downy-haired. The tubular, square, 7 to 12 millimeter long corolla tube has spread, egg-shaped to inverted-egg-shaped triangular, pointed-thorn-pointed tips of 5 to 7 millimeters long and 3 to 4 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached to the tip of the corolla tube and protrude from the corolla tube. The anthers are egg-shaped and about 1.2 millimeters long. The linear, sanded-out nectar flakes are about 2 millimeters in size. The side view in the oblong-lanceolate carpel is 8-10 mm, the pen between 1.5 and 2 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe synsepala is common in central and central-southern Madagascar in rocky and sunny places. The first description was in 1882 by John Gilbert Baker .
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe synsepala . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 183-184 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal of Botany, British and Foreign . Volume 20, London 1882, p. 110.
