Kalanchoe orgyalis
Kalanchoe orgyalis, habitus
Kalanchoe orgyalis is a plant of the genus Kalanchoe in the family Crassulaceae ( Crassulaceae ).
Description
The perennial Kalanchoe orgyalis is a highly branched shrub that reaches the stature heights of 1 to 2 meters. It is covered with characteristic star-shaped hairs. Your upright shoots are branched and vigorous. Young shoots are long haired. The tough, densely long-haired, stalked leaves are on top of gray-green to reddish-brown on the bottom and green to silver. The 5-15 mm long petiole is rinnig. The ovate, ovate - spatelige, elliptic to lanceolate leaf blade is often like a gutter folded, 5 to 15 centimeters long and 3.5 to 10 inches wide. It is pointed at the top and narrowed at the base. The leaf margin is entire.
The inflorescence is a more or less dense ebensträußiger Thyrsus from 45 to 100 centimeters in length. The upright to spreading blooms sit on 5 to 15 mm long pedicles. Fleshy cup tube and ends in missing almost circular to egg-shaped, tapered slightly to dornenspitzigen corners, which are 3 to 5 mm long and 1.4 to 2.8 millimeters wide. The urn-shaped or four -edged corolla is very fleshy, yellow, bald or long haired. The 6 to 15 mm long corolla tube has spread, ovate - triangular, pointed - tip dornenspitzige of 2.5 to 5 mm in length and 3 to 6.5 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached above the middle of the corolla tube and not protrude from the corolla tube. The anthers are ovate and 1.5 to 2 millimeters long. The trapezoidal and semicircular Nektarschüppchen are about 1.5 millimeters. The carpel is 6.5 to 10 millimeters, the stylus is between 2 and 2.5 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe orgyalis is widespread in southern and south-west Madagascar in the dry bush on rocks and soils. The first description was in 1882 by John Gilbert Baker.
A synonym is Kalanchoe antanosiana Drake.