Kalanchoe wildii
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Kalanchoe wildii is a species of the genus Kalanchoe in the thick-leaf family(Crassulaceae).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe wildii is a biennial , completely bare, but everywhere covered with chalky-white powder plant that reaches heights of 30 to 70 centimeters. Their usually simple, powerful shoots are round at the bottom and indistinctly square at the top. The sitting leaves are arranged closer to the base. Their obovate to oblong spatulate or almost circular leaf blades are 2 to 10.5 inches long and 1.7 to 4 inches wide. Its tip is rounded, the base embraces the stem and descends on the shoot. The leaf margin is entire.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence consists of more or less dense ears or panicles and is 7 to 26 centimeters long. The upright flowers are on stalks up to 10 millimeters long . Your fleshy calyx tube is 1 to 1.5 millimeters long. The egg-shaped to elliptical, blunt to slightly pointed calyx lobes are 4 to 5 millimeters long and 3 to 3.5 millimeters wide. The corolla is orange-pink or yellow. The urn-shaped, somewhat square corolla tube is 7 to 11 millimeters long. Their corolla lobes are oblong or almost rectangular, rounded at the tip or truncated and have a length of 3 to 5.5 millimeters and are 2.2 to 2.7 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached near the throat of the corolla tube and protrude from the flower. The almost circular anthers are about 1 millimeter long. The almost rectangular, whole-rimmed nectar flakes have a length of about 1.5 millimeters and are 2.6 millimeters wide. The carpel becomes about 7.5 millimeters long. The stylus is 0.5 millimeters long or almost absent.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe wildii is common on rocks in Zimbabwe .
The first description by Rosette Mercedes Saraiva Batarda Fernandes was published in 1978.
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literature
- Bernard Descoings: Kalanchoe wildii . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Crassulaceae (thick leaf family) . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-8001-3998-7 , pp. 187 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Boletim da Sociedade Broteriana . 2nd episode, Volume 52, 1978, pp. 204-207.