Kalanchoe viguieri
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Kalanchoe viguieri is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe viguieri is a perennial plant that reaches heights of 1 to 2 meters. Their simple or sparsely branched, smooth, covered shoots are upright. Young shoots are covered with a felt of whitish, star-shaped hair and quickly shed. Older shoots have a resinous bark. The thick, fleshy leaves are petiolate. Young leaves are tomentose like the shoots. The petiole is 3 to 12 millimeters long. Their egg-shaped to circular leaf blades are 1.5 to 4.5 inches long and 0.5 to 3.5 inches wide. Its tip is blunt and the base is rounded. The leaf margin is entire or almost entire.
Generative characteristics
The arched inflorescence consists of little-flowered, racemose panicles . It is 4 to 9 inches long and 2 to 8 inches wide. The peduncle is downy hairy. The hanging flowers , completely felted by star-shaped hair, are located on 8 to 13 millimeter long flower stalks . The calyx is green to orange, the calyx tube 1 to 3 millimeters long. The egg-shaped to triangular calyx lobes are 5 to 8 millimeters long and 5 to 6.8 millimeters wide. The bell-shaped corolla is pink to orange in color. The corolla tube is 15 to 25 millimeters long. Their triangular to elongated, thorn-pointed corolla lobes have a length of 6 to 8 millimeters and are just as wide. The stamens are attached below the center of the corolla tube and protrude slightly from the flower. The egg-shaped anthers are 1.7 to 1.9 millimeters long. The rounded nectar flakes are 0.9 to 1.2 millimeters long and 1.5 to 2 millimeters wide. The egg-shaped carpel has a length of 8 to 11 millimeters. The stylus is 10 to 16 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe viguieri is widespread in the south-west of Madagascar in the dry bush on lime.
The first description by Raymond-Hamet and Henri Perrier de La Bâthie was published in 1914.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings : Kalanchoe viguieri . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 186-187 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Annales du Musée Colonial de Marseille . 3rd episode, Volume 2, 1914, p. 187.
Web links
- Herbarium specimen (holotype) at jstor
- Photo of a shoot
