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Mealy kalanchoe (Kalanchoe scapigera)

Description

Kalanchoe scapigera is a small perennial that grows with thick and woody roots . Her woody, somewhat branched, thick, stalk-round shoots are wrinkled and 2 to 3 inches high. The leaves are slightly rosettigen on the shoot tips are sitting or almost sitting. The obovate to almost circular, very thick, reddish to yellow-coppery leaf blade is 2.7 to 4 inches long and 1.2 to 2 inches wide. Their tip is dull to rounded, the base constricted to half stems comprehensive.The dense inflorescence is ebensträußig and 3.5 to 5 inches long. The inflorescence stem is up to 35 inches long. The upright, rather fleshy, deep yellow flowers are on 2 to 6 mm long, stiff pedicels . Its calyx tube is about 0.4 millimeters long. The lanceolate, pointed lobes are 1 to 1.5 millimeters long. The four-edged Kronröhre is rounded at the base and 8 to 12 millimeters long. Their egg-shaped Kronzipfel wear an attached Spitzchen and have a length of about 3 millimeters and are 1 millimeter wide. The stamensare attached above the center of the corolla tube and do not protrude from the flower. The egg-shaped anthers are about 0.6 millimeters long. The linear, pointed to emerald Nektarschüppchen have a length of 2 to 4 millimeters. The elongated carpel has a length of 5 to 10 millimeters. The stylus is 0.5 to 0.7 millimeters long.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Tracheophyta

        • Class: Magnoliopsida

          • Order: Saxifragales

            • Family: Crassulaceae

              • Genus: Kalanchoe