Published January 6, 2021 | Version v1
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Kalanchoe porphyrocalyx Sunny

  • 1. Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, P. O. Box 77000, Port Elizabeth, 6031 South Africa. & smithgideon 1 @ gmail. com; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5417 - 9208
  • 2. The Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv University, Klausner St 12, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel. & ron 3 nshtein @ gmail. com; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8868 - 3640

Description

Kalanchoe porphyrocalyx ‘Sunny Balloon’ Gideon F.Sm. & Shtein, cult. nov.

Nomenclatural standard:— Figure 3 of this paper.

Description:—Terrestrial or epiphytic succulent plants, of open, shrubby, growth. Stems up to 20(–30) cm long. Leaves narrowly ovate to obovate; margins with shallow crenations. Inflorescences 10(–15) cm long, erect to slightly leaning. Flowers globular in bud, double, 25–28 mm long, 17–20 mm in diameter at the widest point, deep metallic purple-red, light green-infused towards lobes; lobes light green, subtended by small succulent bracts, campanulate.

Notes

Published as part of Smith, Gideon F. & Shtein, Ronen, 2021, Taxonomic notes on Kalanchoe porphyrocalyx (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae) and its horticultural derivatives, pp. 225-238 in Phytotaxa 478 (2) on page 233, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.478.2.4, http://zenodo.org/record/5413193

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Sunny
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Saxifragales
Family
Crassulaceae
Genus
Kalanchoe
Species
porphyrocalyx
Taxon rank
species