Kalanchoe thyrsiflora
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Kalanchoe thyrsiflora is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the family of thick-leaf plants (Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
The biennial, completely bald, slightly floury, dusted with white, sticky powder Kalanchoe thyrsiflora reaches heights of 0.75 to 1.5 meters. The simple, upright, strong shoots are terete.
The seated, thick, fleshy, half-stem-encompassing leaves that are fused with the base are closer to the base. The gray-green leaf blade is 6 to 17 centimeters long and 2.5 to 12 centimeters wide, obovate, lanceolate-oblong to spatulate. The entire leaf margins are more or less tinged red and rounded or blunt at the tip.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence has dense, many-flowered thyrses that are up to 30 centimeters high. The flowers sit on 6.5 to 12 millimeters long, fairly thick flower stalks . The flowers are upright and give off a penetrating, sweet fragrance. The 1 to 1.5 millimeter long calyx has ovate to lanceolate, pointed tips. The almost urn-shaped or ovoid-elongated corolla is golden yellow, yellow or gray-green with a thick ring and forms a square tube, 12 to 20 millimeters long, towards the top. The tips are egg-shaped to almost circular and are 2 to 5 millimeters long and 3 to 4.5 millimeters wide.
The stamens are attached to the tip of the corolla tube. The upper stamens protrude beyond the tube. The approximately 1.5 to 2 millimeters large anthers are oval-circular. The carpel is 12 to 15 millimeters long. The stylus has a length of 1.5 to 3 millimeters.
Fruits and seeds
The fruits are upright follicles that contain numerous, 1 to 1.3 mm large seeds .
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe thyrsiflora is common in southeastern Botswana and South Africa on rocky ground in open bushland.
The first description by William Henry Harvey was published in 1862.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings : Kalanchoe thyrsiflora . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 184-185 .
- Hermann Jacobsen : The succulent dictionary. 3. Edition. Fischer, Jena 1983, DNB 203624556 , p. 277.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Flora Capensis. Being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, & port Natal . Volume 2, London 1862, p. 380 ( online ).
