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Kalanchoe pumila

(Flower Dust Plant)

Common Names

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Common Names in English:

Blue Kalanchoe, Flower Dust Plant

Description

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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.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.

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.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.

Physical Description

Habit: Evergreen .

Flowers: Bloom Period: January, February. • Flower Color: pink

Size/Age/Growth

Size: 6-12" tall.

Biology

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Growth

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Taxonomy

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Notes

Publishing author : Baker Publication : Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. (1883) 139.A tentatively accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

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Members of the genus Kalanchoe

There are approximately 600 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

K. flaurantia · K. houghtonii · K. lokarana · K. richaudii · K. 'African Queen' · K. 'African Yellow' · K. 'Alexandra' · K. 'Anatole' · K. 'Arjuno' · K. 'Cabulco' · K. 'Caroline' · K. 'Chillan' · K. 'Debbie' · K. 'Dorothy' · K. 'Elaine' · K. 'Elisa' · K. 'Gelai' · K. 'Golden African' · K. 'Golden Eye' · K. 'Happy Bells' · K. 'Juliana' · K. 'Julianatje' · K. 'Kalistos' · K. 'Katharos' · K. 'Klabat' · K. 'Lokon' · K. 'Lucky Bells' · K. 'Madeleine' · K. 'Mie' · K. 'Mirabella' · K. 'Molly' · K. 'Monique' · K. 'Orange African' · K. 'Orange Dorothy' · K. 'Pablo' · K. 'Pink Zinfandel' (Kalanchoe) · K. 'Red African' · K. 'Red Jaqueline' · K. 'Roxy' · K. 'Selene' · K. 'Semeru' · K. 'Simone' · K. 'Soft Nathalie' · K. 'Sophie' · K. 'Soul' · K. 'Stephanie' · K. 'Tencotta' · K. 'Tessa' · K. 'Theresa' · K. 'Tribute' · K. 'Victoria' · K. 'Wendy' · K. 'Zebedi' · K. 'Zephyros' · K. abrupta · K. acutiflora · K. adelae · K. adolphi-engleri · K. aegyptiaca · K. afzeliana · K. albiflora · K. aleurodes · K. aliciae · K. alternans · K. alternans var. lanceolata · K. alticola · K. ambolensis · K. ambrensis · K. amplexicaulis · K. angolensis · K. angustifolia · K. annamica · K. antanosiana · K. antennifera · K. arborescens · 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 (Felt Bush) · K. beharensis 'Brown Dwarf' (Kalanchoe) · K. beharensis 'Chocolate Chip' (Kalanchoe) · K. beharensis 'Fang' (Kalanchoe) · K. beharensis 'Oakleaf' (Oakleaf Feltbush) · K. beharensis 'Roseleaf' · K. beharensis 'Rusty' · K. beharensis f. glabra · K. beniensis · K. bentii · K. bequaertii · K. bergeri · K. bhidei · K. bipartita · K. biternata · K. bitteri · K. blossfeldiana (Christmas Kalanchoe)

Bibliography

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More Info

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Notes

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Contributors

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 06, 2007:

Identifiers

Footnotes

Last Revised: 2008-11-04