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Kalanchoe blossfeldiana Von Poellnitz 1934

  • 1. Strada Val San Martino superiore 194, Torino, Italy.
  • 2. Ria Olivier Herbarium, Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, P. O. Box 77000, Gqeberha, 6031 South Africa.

Description

1. Kalanchoe blossfeldiana Von Poellnitz (1934: 159) (Fig. 1).

Type:— MADAGASCAR. Northern Madagascar, Tsaratanana Massif, almost always in the forest with lichens on the peaks [‘Silve à Lichens’], in isolated stands of never more than four to five plants, at altitudes of between 1600 and 2400 m, herbarium material prepared from plants cultivated in the garden of H. Perrier de la Bâthie in Antananarivo and not from the wild, no date [specimen donated to Herb. P in 1932], [J.M.] H. [A.] Perrier de la Bâthie 17883 (lectotype designated by Van Voorst & Arends (1982: 575), P barcode P00374114! [Image of the specimen available for inspection online at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/p/p00374114]), second-step lectotype designated by Smith & Figueiredo (2022: 107).

Iconography:—Smith et al. (2019).

Secondary distribution:— Italy (Sardinia) = cited by Stinca et al. (2021); a single plant was discovered in Cagliari; this could be a reference to material having been planted and not to material that has escaped. Referencing it as a first warning for Europe may prove to be premature. Turkey (Anatolia) = Uludağ et al. (2017). Belgium = Randall (2017). European Russia = indicated by Byalt (2012) as a new record in the Komarov Institute where it is sometimes cultivated; also noted in a dump in Rzhev (Notov in Byalt 2012). Great Britain = Clement & Foster (1994) treat it as a casual greenhouse escape and further state that: “Plants grown under this name are often of complex hybrid origin”. Poland = escaped into greenhouse cultivation (Galera & Ratynska 1999, Randall 2017). Sweden = Karlsson & Agestam (2019).

[Also in Ecuador (Vargas et al. 2022), New Zealand, U.S.A.]

Notes:—References by Bayon & Vilà (2019) and Guillot Ortiz (2020a: 35) of K. blossfeldiana in the province of Castellón, Spain, are of material cultivated as ornamentals.

Notes

Published as part of Gallo, Lorenzo & Smith, Gideon F., 2024, A review of the genus Kalanchoe (Crassulaceae subfam. Cotyledonoideae) in the Euro-Mediterranean area, with an annotated catalogue and identification key, pp. 171-198 in Phytotaxa 674 (2) on pages 175-176, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.674.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/14521152

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
P
Material sample ID
P00374114
Scientific name authorship
Von Poellnitz
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Saxifragales
Family
Crassulaceae
Genus
Kalanchoe
Species
blossfeldiana
Taxon rank
species
Type status
lectotype
Taxonomic concept label
Kalanchoe blossfeldiana Poellnitz, 1934 sec. Gallo & Smith, 2024

References

  • Von Poellnitz, [J.] K. [L. A.]. (1934) XV. Kalanchoe Blossfeldiana. Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis. Centralblatt fur Sammlung und Veroffentlichung von Einzeldiagnosen neuer Pflanzen 35: 159 - 160. [https: // bibdigital. rjb. csic. es / viewer / 14775 /? offset = # page = 171 & viewer = picture & o = bookmark & n = 0 & q =]
  • Van Voorst, A. & Arends, J. C. (1982) The origin and chromosome numbers of cultivars of Kalanchoe blossfeldiana Von Poelln.: their history and evolution. Euphytica 31 (3): 573 - 584.
  • Smith, G. F. & Figueiredo, E. (2022) Nomenclatural notes on the economically important Flaming Katy, Kalanchoe blossfeldiana (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae). Phytotaxa 549 (1): 104 - 110. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / phytotaxa. 549.1.9
  • Stinca, A., Musarella, C. M., Rosati, L., Laface, V. L. A., Licht, W., Fanfarillo, E., Wagensommer, R. P., Galasso, G., Fascetti, S., Esposito, A., Fiaschi, T., Nicolella, G., Chianese, G., Ciaschetti, G., Salerno, G., Fortini, P., Di Pietro, R., Perrino, E. V., Angiolini, C., De Simone, L. & Mei, G. (2021) Italian vascular flora: new findings, updates and exploration of floristic similarities between regions. Diversity 13 (11): a 600 [46 pp.]. https: // doi. org / 10.3390 / d 13110600
  • Uludag, A., Aksoy, N., Yazlik, A., Arslan, Z. F., Yazmis, E., Uremis, I., Cossu, T. A., Groom, Q., Pergl, J., Pysek, P. & Brundu, G. (2017) Alien flora of Turkey: checklist, taxonomic composition and ecological attributes. NeoBiota 35: 61 - 85. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / neobiota. 35.12460
  • Randall, R. P. (2017) A global compendium of weeds. 3 rd edn. R. P. Randall, Perth, 3659 pp.
  • Byalt, V. V. (2012) Crassulaceae. In: Geltman, D. (Ed.) Conspectus florae europae orientalis. Tomus 1. Petropoli-Mosca, Consociatio editionum scientificarum KMK, pp. 500 - 514.
  • Clement, E. J. & Foster, M. C. (1994) Alien plants of the British Isles. A provisional catalogue of vascular plants (excluding grasses). Botanical Society of the British Isles, London, 590 pp.
  • Galera, H. & Ratynska, H. (1999) Greenhouse weeds in the Botanical Garden of PAS [Polish Academy of Sciences] in Warsaw-Powsin. Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae 68 (3): 227 - 236. https: // doi. org / 10.5586 / asbp. 1999.031
  • Karlsson, T. & Agestam, M. (2019) Checklista over Nordens karlvaxter. Available at: http: // www. euphrasia. nu / checklista / (Accessed 20 May 2024)
  • Vargas, A., Herrera, I., Nualart, N., Guezou, A., Gomez-Bellver, C., Freire, E., Jaramillo Diaz, P. & Lopez-Pujol, J. (2022) The genus Kalanchoe (Crassulaceae) in Ecuador: from gardens to the wild. Plants 11 (13): a 1746 [22 pp.]. https: // doi. org / 10.3390 / plants 11131746
  • Bayon, A. & Vila, M. (2019) Horizon scanning to identify invasion risk of ornamental plants marketed in Spain. NeoBiota 52: 47 - 86. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / neobiota. 52.38113
  • Guillot Ortiz, D. (2020 a) Apuntes para una flora ornamental de la provincia de Castellon (Espana) (VI). Bouteloua 29: 35 - 37.