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Kalanchoe delagoensis Eckl. & Zeyh.

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Kalanchoe delagoensis Eckl. & Zeyh., Enum. Pl. Afric. Austral. [Ecklon & Zeyher] 305 (1837)
Kalanchoe delagoensis Eckl. & Zeyh.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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Eckl. & Zeyh.
Eckl. & Zeyh.
1837
305
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Kalanchoe delagoensis Eckl. & Zeyh.
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Kalanchoe delagoensis

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delagoensis

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Glabrous herb, not forming dense stands; stems simple, mottled, to c. 50 cm high, prostrate and rooting towards base, otherwise erect. Lvs simple, sessile, alternate, opposite, or occasionally in whorls of 3, 6-7 cm long, 4-5 mm thick, cylindric and subterete, pale green to whitish, brownish white, or pale brown, with irregular dark green, snakeskin-like patches along sides, uniformly pale beneath, with a narrow pale band on a darker background above, usually with several plantlets around the tapering apex. Infl. a rather dense, terminal, corymbose cyme, to c. 8 cm diam.; main axis to c. 5 cm long. Fls pendulous. Calyx c. 12 mm long, ± campanulate, not inflated in middle, brownish with whitish bloom; lobes 7-10 mm long, ± triangular. Corolla wine-red, becoming orange-red, especially lobes; tube c. 2.5 cm long, far exserted from calyx; lobes c. 10 mm long, ± broadly obovate to suborbicular, rounded or slightly mucronate. Stamens c. 3 cm long, pale pink. Styles c. 2.5 cm long, yellow. Follicles not seen.

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Bryophyllum delagoense (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Schinz
Kalanchoe delagoensis Eckl. & Zeyh.
Kalanchoe delagoensis Eckl. & Zeyh.
Kalanchoe delagoensis Eckl. & Zeyh.
Kalanchoe delagoensis Eckl. & Zeyh.
Kalanchoe delagoensis Eckl. & Zeyh.

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Cultivated
New Zealand
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Recorded as hetertypic synonym Kalanchoe tubiflorum (mis-spelled as "tubiflora"); Subtropicals, Vol. 3, No. 1, p. 6

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12 June 2015
1 December 2022
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