| Dicotyledon | Literature for Kalanchoe pinnata
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999; Lorence & Wagner, 2020. |
| Crassulaceae -- The Orpine Family | Bibliography |
| Kalanchoe pinnata | |
Common name(s): palm beach bells, `oliwa ku kahakai, air plant, life plant |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native range uncertain, possibly Madagascar, now widely established in many tropical and subtropical areas.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. |
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| Habit |
Glabrous, succulent perennial herb; stem hollow, 5‒20 dm long, rarely branched, producing vegetatively by adventitious shoots from base. |
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| Leaves |
Proximal and uppermost leaves simple, medial ones usually pinnately compound, opposite, petiolate; leaflets 3‒5, flat, elliptic, 5‒20 cm long, 2‒10 cm wide, margin crenate, sometimes producing bulbils; petiole 2‒10 cm long. |
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| Flowers |
Inflorescences a paniculate cyme, 20‒80 cm long, cymules pendent on pedicel 1‒2.5 cm long. Flowers with sepals pale yellow-green, streaked with red, connate, cylindrical, inflated and papery, tube 2.5‒4.5 cm long, lobes ca. 1 cm long; corolla 3‒6 cm long, exserted part maroon, basal part pale green, sparsely glandular pubescent. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit 12‒13 mm long, 2 mm wide, narrowly ovoid, beaked. |
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| Seeds |
Seeds numerous, brown, striate, linear-oblong, 0.5‒0.7 mm long, 0.2 mm wide. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 34, 36, 38, 40. |
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| Notes |
Spreads mainly vegetatively from leaf and stem fragments and bulbils. |
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| Contributor |
David Lorence |
