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Meristostylus brachycalyx

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Identification
Meristostylus brachycalyx Klotzsch [family CRASSULACEAE ] Verified by Byalt,V., Kalanchoe rotundifolia (Haw.) Haw. [family CRASSULACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Kalanchoe rotundifolia
  • Meristostylus brachycalyx

Flora

Entry for Kalanchoe rotundifolia forma rotundifolia [family CRASSULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 7, Part 1, page 3, (1983) Author: R. Fernandes
Names
Kalanchoe luebbertiana Engl. [family CRASSULACEAE], Bot. Jahrb. 39: 463 (1907). — R.-Hamet in Bull. Herb. Boiss., Sér. 2, 8: 40 (1908). — Dinter in Fedde, Repert. 18: 434 (1922). Type from Namibia.
Kalanchoe holstii [family CRASSULACEAE], sensu Hutch., Botanist in S. Afr. : 469 (1946) non Engl. (1894).
Kalanchoe guillauminii R.-Hamet [family CRASSULACEAE], in Bull. Mus. Nation. Hist. Nat., Sér. 2, 20: 465 (1948). Type: a cultivated specimen at Jardin des PIantes, Paris.
Kalanchoe rotundifolia var. pseudo-leblanciae R.-Hamet [family CRASSULACEAE], Crass. Ic. Select. 3: t. 59 (1958) nom. nud.’, pro parte quoad inflorescent.
Kalanchoe rotundifolia var. strictifolia R.-Hamet [family CRASSULACEAE], op. cit. 4 t. 70 (1960) nom. nud.
Kalanchoe rotundifolia var. guillauminii R.-Hamet R.-Hamet [family CRASSULACEAE], tom. cit.; t. 71 (1960); op. cit. 5: t. 93 (1963).
Kalanchoe rotundifolia var. aequimagnisepala R.-Hamet [family CRASSULACEAE], tom. cit. 5: t. 90-91 (1963) nom. nud.
Kalanchoe rotundifolia var. genuina R.-Hamet [family CRASSULACEAE], tom. cit.: t. 92 (1963). — J. H. Ross, Fl. Natal: 179 (1972) nom. nud.
Kalanchoe decumbens Compton [family CRASSULACEAE], in Journ. S. Afr. Bot. 33: 297 (1967). Type from Swaziland.
Kalanchoe rotundifolia forma rotundifolia [family CRASSULACEAE]
Meristostylus brachycalyx Klotzsch [family CRASSULACEAE], in Peters, Reise Mossamb., Bot. 1: 270 (1861). — Harms in Engl. & Prantl, op. cit.: 404 (1930), in adnot. Type: Mozambique, Inhambane, Peters s.n. (B).
Kalanchoe integerrima Lange [family CRASSULACEAE], Ind. Sem. Hort. Haun. (nom. emend.): 5 (1872); in Bot. Tidsskr., Ser. 3, 1: 139, t. 5 (1878). Type a cultivated plant in Bot. Gart. Copenhagen.
Information
Lower leaves circular, obovate to spathulate, rarely linear-spathulate, the median similar but narrower, the upper ones spathulate to lanceolate or linear, rounded, obtuse to subacute at the apex, usually entire or sometimes shallowly crenate towards the apex, attenuate or contracted at the base, at least the lower petiolate; petiole up to 1·2 cm. long, neither connate with the opposite one nor deccurent along the stem.
Habitat
In woodland, open and secondary forests, savannas, open veld, etc., on sandy or rocky soils or on rocks, either in dry or wet habitats, sometimes in salt marshes.
Distribution
Mozambique M Namaacha, below the waterfall, banks of ImpamputoR., c. 1 km. from Lagoa dos Patos, 14.xi.1968, A. Fernandes.R. Fernandes & M. Correia 90 (COI; LMU); Inhaca Island Ponta Ponduini, 2.vi.1970, Correia & Marques 1958 (LMU).Mozambique GI Gaza, from Guija to Mabalane n. Barragem-village, left bank of Limpopo R., 3.vi.1959, Barbosa & Lemos 8583 (COI; K; LISC).Mozambique MS Maringua village, 6 miles S. of Sabi R., 23.vi.1950, Chase 2245 (BM; K; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Victoria, Kyle National Park Game Reserve, base of Mtunumushava Hill, n. StaffHouses, 21.v.1971, Grosvenor 513 (K; PRE; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Odzi, c. 1120 m., 29.v.1939, Eyles 8617 (BR; K).Zimbabwe C 8 miles S. of Gweru, c. 1440 m., 2.v.1967, Biegel 2135 (K; LISC; PRE; SRGH).Mozambique Z Quelimane, c. 32 m., 1908, T. R. Sim 20835 (PRE).Botswana SE Mochudi, 1914, Rogers 6446 (K).Zimbabwe W Matobo, Breadleaf (?) Farm, c. 1500 m., iii.1959. Miller 5813 (K; LISC; PRE; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Socotra
Tanzania
S. Africa (Transvaal, Natal, E. Cape Prov.)
Swaziland
Namibia
Notes
The most common form of this very polymorphic species.

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