Entry for BRYOPHYLLUM tubiflorum Harv. [family CRASSULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 2, page 327, (1894) Author: (By W. H. HARVEY).
Names
BRYOPHYLLUM tubiflorumHarv. [family CRASSULACEAE]
Kalanchoe DelagoensisE. & Z. [family CRASSULACEAE], ! 1955.
Information
leaves (unknown); corolla thrice or four times as long as the sharply 4-cleft calyx, its segments broadly oblong, very blunt or truncate; stamens as long as the tube of the corolla. Of this very remarkable plant a portion of a denuded branch, and part of a dense, probably thyrsoid, inflorescence exist in Herb. Sonder. The internodes are scarcely an inch long, and there are 4 cicatrices, indicating whorled leaves, at each node. Calyx 3 lines long. Corolla uncial, bright red, its lobes almost square, 2 1/2 lines long.
