Description
Family Crassulaceae
Herbs, subshrubs
, or shrubs
. Stems mostly fleshy
. Leaves alternate, opposite, or verticillate
, usually simple
; stipules absent; leaf blade
entire or slightly incised, rarely lobed
or imparipinnate
. Inflorescences terminal
or axillary
, cymose
, corymbiform
, spiculate
, racemose, paniculate
, or sometimes reduced to a solitary flower. Flowers usually bisexual
, sometimes unisexual
in Rhodiola (when plants
dioecious or rarely gynodioecious
), actinomorphic
, (3 or) 4-6(-30) -merous. Sepals almost free
or basally connate
, persistent
. Petals free or connate. Stamens as many as petals in 1 series or 2 × as many in 2 series. Nectar scales
at or near base
of carpels. Follicles sometimes fewer than sepals, free or basally connate, erect
or spreading
, membranous or leathery, 1- to many seeded. Seeds small; endosperm scanty or not developed.
About 35 genera and over 1500 species: Africa, America, Asia, Europe; 13 genera (two endemic, one introduced
) and 233 species (129 endemic, one introduced) in China.
Some species of Crassulaceae are cultivated as ornamentals
and/or used medicinally.[1]
Genus Kalanchoe
Herbs sometimes biennial, subshrubs
, or shrubs
. Roots
usually fibrous
. Leaves opposite, petiolate
or sessile, usually amplexicaul
; leaf blade
margin
entire, dentate
, crenate
, or leaves pinnate. Inflorescences terminal
, cymose
, sometimes also with subterminal
cymes and thus paniculate
, many flowered; bracts small. Flowers bisexual
, erect
, 4-merous. Sepals free
or basally subconnate, triangular to lanceolate, usually shorter than corolla tube
. Corolla yellow (or white, red, pink, or orange), salverform
; tube subquadrangular or basally inflated
and urn-shaped, base
slightly narrowed; lobes
longer
than tube. Stamens 2 × as many as petals, inserted
near middle
of corolla tube; filaments
unequal in length
, usually very short. Nectar scales
linear
to suborbicular
. Carpels erect. Styles short or long. Follicles many seeded. Seeds ellipsoid
.
About 125 species: Africa, Asia; four species (two endemic) in China.[2]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Saxifraganae
()
- Reveal, 1994
- Order:
Saxifragales
()
- Dumortier, 1829
- Family:
Crassulaceae
()
- A.p. De Candolle, 1805
- Stonecrop Family
- Genus:
Kalanchoe
()
- Adanson, Fam. Pl. 2: 248. 1763.
- Widow's-thrill
- Specific epithet:
beauverdi
- Raym.-Hamet
- Botanical name: - Kalanchoe beauverdi Raym.-Hamet
- Specific epithet:
beauverdi
- Raym.-Hamet
- Genus:
Kalanchoe
(
- Family:
Crassulaceae
(
- Order:
Saxifragales
(
- Superorder:
Saxifraganae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Notes
Publishing author : Raym.-Hamet Publication : in Bull . Herb. Boiss. Ser. II. vii. 887 (1907).
Similar Species
Members of the genus Kalanchoe
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 653 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
K. abrupta · K. acutiflora · K. adelae · K. adolphi-engleri · K. aegyptiaca · K. 'African Queen' · K. 'African Yellow' · K. afzeliana · K. albiflora · K. aleurodes · K. 'Alexandra' · K. aliciae · K. alternans · K. alternans var. lanceolata · K. alticola · K. ambolensis · K. ambrensis · K. amplexicaulis · K. 'Anatole' · K. angolensis · K. angustifolia · K. annamica · K. antanosiana · K. antennifera · K. arborescens · K. 'Arjuno' · K. aromatica · K. aromatica var. brevicorolla · K. aubrevillei · K. ballyi · K. baumii · K. beauverdi · K. beauverdii (Beauverd's Widow's-Thrill) · K. beauverdii var. juelii · K. beharensis (Velvet Leaf Kalanchoe) · K. beharensis 'Brown Dwarf' (Kalanchoe) · K. beharensis 'Chocolate Chip' (Kalanchoe) · K. beharensis f. glabra · K. beharensis 'Fang' (Kalanchoe) · K. beharensis 'Nudum' · K. beharensis 'Oakleaf' (Oakleaf Feltbush) · K. beharensis 'Roseleaf' · K. beharensis 'Rusty' · K. beniensis · K. bentii · K. bequaertii · K. bergeri · K. bhidei · K. bipartita · K. biternata · K. bitteri · K. blossfeldiana (Madagascar Widow's-Thrill) · K. blossfeldiana 'Altar' · K. blossfeldiana 'Amrum' · K. blossfeldiana 'Amy' · K. blossfeldiana 'Annetta' · K. blossfeldiana 'Antilla' · K. blossfeldiana 'Attraction' · K. blossfeldiana 'Avalon' · K. blossfeldiana 'Axanpink' · K. blossfeldiana 'Axorch' · K. blossfeldiana 'Axpink' · K. blossfeldiana 'Axrose' · K. blossfeldiana 'Axsalm' · K. blossfeldiana 'Axwhite' · K. blossfeldiana 'Bali' · K. blossfeldiana 'Baltrum' · K. blossfeldiana 'Baluran' · K. blossfeldiana 'Bardot' · K. blossfeldiana 'Bess' · K. blossfeldiana 'Beta' · K. blossfeldiana 'Borkum' · K. blossfeldiana 'Brava' · K. blossfeldiana 'Bromo' · K. blossfeldiana 'Calandiva Charming Red' (Christmas Kalanchoe) · K. blossfeldiana 'Calandiva Dark Pink' (Christmas Kalanchoe) · K. blossfeldiana 'Calandiva Orange' (Christmas Kalanchoe) · K. blossfeldiana 'Calandiva Pink' (Christmas Kalanchoe) · K. blossfeldiana 'Calandiva Pink Purple' (Christmas Kalanchoe) · K. blossfeldiana 'Calandiva Purple' (Christmas Kalanchoe) · K. blossfeldiana 'Calandiva Red' (Christmas Kalanchoe) · K. blossfeldiana 'Calandiva Soft Pink' (Christmas Kalanchoe) · K. blossfeldiana 'Calandiva White' (Christmas Kalanchoe) · K. blossfeldiana 'Calandiva White & Pink' (Christmas Kalanchoe) · K. blossfeldiana 'Calypso' · K. blossfeldiana 'Caprice' · K. blossfeldiana 'Carmen' · K. blossfeldiana 'Cassandra' · K. blossfeldiana 'Celine' · K. blossfeldiana 'Charm' · K. blossfeldiana 'Cinnabar' · K. blossfeldiana 'Cora' · K. blossfeldiana 'Country' · K. blossfeldiana 'Dark Cora' · K. blossfeldiana 'Delia' · K. blossfeldiana 'Domonique' · K. blossfeldiana 'Don Angelo' · K. blossfeldiana 'Don Sergio' · K. blossfeldiana 'Emma' · K. blossfeldiana 'Eve'
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Further Reading
- Fu Shu-hsia & Fu Kun-tsun. 1984. Crassulaceae. In: Fu Shu-hsia & Fu Kun-tsun, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 34(1): 31-220.
Notes
Contributors
- The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Jan 19, 2007.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 10621367
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:274269-1
- International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 274269-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1368872
Footnotes
- Kunjun Fu, Hideaki Ohba & Michael G. Gilbert "Crassulaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 8 Page 202. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Fu Kun-tsun, Michael G. Gilbert, Hideaki Ohba "Kalanchoe". in Flora of China Vol. 8 Page 204. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
