Kalanchoe tuberosa
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Kalanchoe tuberosa is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe tuberosa is a perennial plant that is completely covered with a floury frost. Their simple, slender, round pedicels are upright to prostrate and reach a length of 20 to 30 centimeters. The whitish, frosted, numerous leaves are stalked and densely arranged on the upper parts of the shoot. The petiole is 2 to 3 millimeters long. Their egg-shaped leaf blades are 2.5 to 3 inches long and 1.5 to 1.9 inches wide. Its tip is pointed and the base rounded. The leaf margin is serrated.
Generative characteristics
The almost sessile inflorescence consists of densely 2- to 25-flowered cymes with even branches . The upright flowers are on 5 to 7 millimeter long, whitish frosted flower stalks . Your calyx tube is about 1 millimeter long. The elongated, blunt calyx lobes are 10 to 11 millimeters long and about 4 millimeters wide. The corolla is pink to pure red. The cylindrical corolla tube is about 40 millimeters long. Their ovate, pointed and spreading corolla lobes have a length of about 15 millimeters and are 10 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached above the center of the corolla tube and do not protrude from the flower. The elongated anthers are about 2.5 millimeters long. The linear, full-margined to two-part nectar flakes are about 5 millimeters long. The carpel has a length of 6 to 8 millimeters. The stylus is about 20 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe tuberosa is common in northern Madagascar at altitudes of 1000 to 2400 meters.
The first description by Henri Perrier de La Bâthie was published in 1928.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe tuberosa . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 185 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Archives de Botanique, Bulletin Mensuel . Volume 2, Number 2, 1928, p. 24.