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Issue: Vol. 710 No. 1: 11 Jul. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-07-11
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.710.1.7
Page range: 120-126
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John G. Baker was right all along, Kalanchoe streptantha (Crassulaceae subfam. Cotyledonoideae) is a kitchingia: refining the circumscription of the Malagasy K. sect. Streptanthae, now a monotypic section in K. subg. Kitchingia

Ria Olivier Herbarium, Department of Botany, Nelson Mandela University, P.O. Box 77000, Gqeberha, 6031 South Africa
infrageneric classification Kalanchoe bogneri Madagascar nomenclature taxonomy Eudicots

Abstract

The circumscription of Kalanchoe sect. Streptanthae (Crassulaceae subfam. Cotyledonoideae), previously a two-species section, is amended to include only K. streptantha, so yielding it monotypic. The section is now included in K. subg. Kitchingia, no longer in K. subg. Bryophyllum, in which K. bogneri removed from it, is retained.

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Smith, G.F. (2025) John G. Baker was right all along, Kalanchoe streptantha (Crassulaceae subfam. Cotyledonoideae) is a kitchingia: refining the circumscription of the Malagasy K. sect. Streptanthae, now a monotypic section in K. subg. Kitchingia. Phytotaxa 710 (1): 120–126. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.710.1.7