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Kalanchoe glaucescens

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Identification
Kalanchoe glaucescens Britten [family CRASSULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Raadts, E.,
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Flora

Entry for KALANCHOE glaucescens Britten [family CRASSULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
KALANCHOE glaucescens Britten [family CRASSULACEAE], (1871).
KALANCHOE flammea Stapf [family CRASSULACEAE], (1895);. type: specimen collected by Cole & Lort Phillips and cultivated at Kew, probably originating from N1 (K holo.).
KALANCHOE elliptica Raadts [family CRASSULACEAE], (1972);. type: N2, specimen cultivated in Berlin from between “Erigavo” and “Mait”, Bally 10335 (B holo., not seen).
Information
Perennial, glabrous and usually glaucous throughout, 0.3–1.2 m high; stems erect or decumbent at the base. Leaves petiolate or sessile, narrowly to broadly ovate or obovate, up to 10 x 7 cm, sometimes with dark spots beneath, cuneate at the base, acute to rounded at the apex, serrate, crenate or entire. Pedicels 2–5(–8) mm long. Calyx-lobes (2–)3–6(–8) mm long, united for (0.2–)0.5–1 mm, sometimes caducous. Corolla yellow, orange or red; tube (5–)10–12(–15) mm long; lobes (3–)5–6.5(–7.5) mm long, acute with mucro 0.2–1 mm long. Upper anthers included to somewhat exserted. Follicles (4.5–)6–8(–10) mm long; styles 1–2(–3) mm long.
Range
N1–3 Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Sudan and south to N Tanzania and Dem. Rep. Congo.
Altitude range
900–2300 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Glover & Gilliland 1225; Bally 10287; Thulin 4364.
Notes
Berjero, marode lugud, tarraf (Som.). K. flammea has previously been regarded as a distinct species restricted to Somalia, distinguished mainly by its sessile leaves and more caducous calyx-lobes. However, the variation seems quite continuous, and also covers K. elliptica, which is included here as well. K. glaucescens subsp. arabica Cuf., described from Yemen, was referred to K. deficiens (Forssk.) Asch. & Schweinf. var. glabra Raadts in Willdenowia 18: 423 (1989).

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