Kalanchoe tetraphylla
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Kalanchoe tetraphylla is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe tetraphylla is a perennial plant. Their always simple, lignified, strong shoots reach a diameter of up to 30 millimeters. They are short or up to 1.5 meters high. The up to 1 centimeter thick, sessile or short and broad-stalked leaves form a rosette at the shoot tips , which usually consists of two pairs. When young, the leaves are densely glandular and hairy and later glabrous. Their reddish, ovate-circular leaf blades are 13 to 15 centimeters long and just as wide. Its tip is rounded, the base trimmed. The leaf margin is roughly serrated.
Generative characteristics
The axillary, glandular-hairy inflorescence usually consists of two opposite, dense, even cymes . The inflorescence stalk is 8 to 15 inches long. The upright or spreading flowers stand on glandular flower stalks and are completely enveloped in white glandular hairs. Your green to reddish calyx tube is 6 to 10 millimeters long. The triangular, pointed calyx tips are 6 to 8 millimeters long. The corolla is striped from white-yellow to yellow-green and purple. The corolla tube is about 10 millimeters long. Their egg-shaped corolla lobes rounded at their tips have a length of about 10 millimeters. The stamens are attached directly above the center of the corolla tube and protrude from the flower. The anthers are rounded, the nectar flakes are square, deeply edged, two-toothed and are about 2 millimeters long. The elongated carpel has a length of 6 to 8 millimeters. The stylus is 2.5 to 4 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe tetraphylla is common in Madagascar in rocky places at altitudes of 1000 to 2000 meters.
The first description by Henri Perrier de La Bâthie was published in 1923.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe tetraphylla . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 184 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle . Volume 29, 1923, pp. 452-453.
Web links
- Photos of the flower