Kalanchoe fadeniorum
Kalanchoe fadeniorum is a plant of the genus Kalanchoe in the family Crassulaceae ( Crassulaceae ).
- 3.1 Literature
- 3.2 Notes and references
Description
Vegetative characteristics
Kalanchoe fadeniorum is probably a perennial, bare, herbaceous plant that reaches the plant height of about 10 centimeters. The branched shoots are prostrate - creeping. Upright engine parts are dense foliage. The fleshy leaves are almost sessile to short -stalked. The semi- stalk comprehensive petiole up to 5 mm long. The green, almost circular, broadly ovate or obovate leaf blade is 1.5 to 5 inches long and 1.3 to 4 centimeters wide. Your tip is blunt, narrowed the base. The leaf margin is entire or cut - notched.
Generative features
The inflorescence is a composite Zyme and reaches a length of 6 to 7 centimeters and is as wide. The upright blooms stand at 3-4 mm long pedicles. Your cup tube is about 0.5 millimeters long. The triangular sepals are 2 to 2.5 mm long and about 1 mm wide. The pale reddish yellow-brown in the lower part of the petals are also reddish. The cylindrical, somewhat four-sided corolla tube is inflated slightly below the middle, and 13 to 14 millimeters long. Your elliptic corolla lobes have a length of 9 to 10 mm and are 3.5 to 4 millimeters wide. The stamens are attached above the middle of the corolla tube and not protrude from the flower. The oblong anthers are about 0.7 millimeters long. The linealischen Nektarschüppchen have a length of 2 to 2.5 millimeters. The stalked, cylindrical - lanceolate carpel has a length between 10 and 11,5 mm. The stylus is about 2 millimeters long.
The elongated ovoid seeds reach a length of about 0.6 millimeters.
Systematics and distribution
Kalanchoe fadeniorum is common in the southwest of Kenya in semi- evergreen thickets on sandy soils at altitudes of 360 meters.
The first description by Edith Marie Raadts was published in 1979.