Kalanchoë laciniata

(Linnaeus) de Candolle

Pl. Hist. Succ., plate 100. 1802 ,.

Common names: Christmas tree kalanchoë fir-tree kalanchoë
Basionym: Cotyledon laciniata Linnaeus Sp. Pl. 1: 430. 1753
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 8. Treatment on page 157.

Plants glabrous, or pubescent distally. Stems 6 dm. Leaf-blades ovate or obovate, 5–14 cm, margins entire, crenate-dentate, or lobed, apex obtuse. Cymes lax, glabrous or pubescent, not glandular. Pedicels ca. 3 cm. Flowers fragrant; sepals spreading, linear, 10 mm; corolla yellow or yellowish orange, flask-shaped, tube 20 mm, lobes widespreading, 25 mm. 2n = 34, 68.


Phenology: Flowering year-round.
Habitat: Hummocks, waste places, roadsides
Elevation: 0-50 m

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... more about "Kalanchoë laciniata"
perigynous +  and hypogynous +
Reid V. Moran +
(Linnaeus) de Candolle +
subclasping +
Cotyledon laciniata +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (14 cm140 mm <br />0.14 m <br />) +
obovate +  and ovate +
lobed +  and toothed +
oblong-spatulate +, obovate +, ovate +  and elliptic +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br />) +
not circumscissile +
Christmas tree kalanchoë +  and fir-tree kalanchoë +
yellowish orange +  and yellow +
not circumscissile +
flask--shaped +
Fla. +  and Asia +
0-50 m +
fragrant +
Hummocks, waste places, roadsides +
axillary +  and terminal +
persistent +
widespreading +
lobed +  and crenate-dentate +
subquadrate;linear +
semi-inferior +  and superior +
tenuinucellate +, crassinucellate +  and bitegmic +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (?) +
perigynous +  and hypogynous +
red +, orange +  and yellow +
spreading +  and erect +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br />) +
Flowering year-round. +
(3-)4-5(-12)[-30+]-carpellate +
connate +, nearly +  and distinct +
Pl. Hist. Succ., plate +
cross-ribbed +  and ribbed +
ellipsoid +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (?) +
1 +  and many +
adnate +  and free +
antipetalous +
6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br /> (?) +
succulent +
distinct +
2+ times shorter than ovary +
Kalanchoë laciniata +
Kalanchoë +
species +
flask--shaped +  and 4-gonal +
20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br /> (?) +
not conspicuous +
perennial +, biennial +  and annual +
pubescent +  and glabrous +