Basionym:— Kalanchoe [unranked] Stellatopilosae Berger (1930: 404).
Type:— Kalanchoe tomentosa Baker (1882: 110), designated by Smith (2020b: 52).
Infrageneric designation not validly published:—“ Kalanchoe [subg. Kalanchoe] sect. Stellatopilosae ” (A.Berger) Maire (1977: 253), nom. inval. (Turland et al. 2018: Art. 41.5). (See ‘11. The infrageneric classification of Kalanchoe of René Charles Joseph Ernest Maire (1977) ’, below).