FIGURE 3 in Aspects of the taxonomy of the Kalanchoe daigremontiana species complex (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae) and associated interspecific hybrids in southern Madagascar, with the description of a new nothospecies, K. ×descoingsii (=K. laetivirens × K. tubiflora)

FIGURE 3. Habit and inflorescences of Kalanchoe ×descoingsii (R. Shtein 501). A. Apical view of plant in bud, showing the green, small-sized, succulent, acute-tipped flower buds. B. Lateral view of plant showing the unusual phenological transition in leaf shape and node spacing, and the indistinct stem-peduncle transition. C. Leaves in the apical ¼ of the stem; the leaves are dark purple-coloured, well-spaced, attenuate, oblanceolate, and the margins subentire, except apically. D. Basal portion of the stem, showing extremely short nodes and densely arranged, conspicuous leaf scars. The striped and distinctly auriculate base of the leaf blade in side view, with bulbils and bulbil pedestals visible. E. Detail of the flower-bearing portion of the inflorescence at early anthesis, showing the purple-tanned buds and pink corollas that are whitish green when emerging. F. Close-up of the fairly short dichasial cyme, and pink flowers. G. Details of the internally medially orange and apically pink corolla, the yellow pollen, the cuneate carpels dressed with short, rounded nectar scales, and the rounded calyx. Photographs: Ronen Shtein.