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Issue: Vol. 613 No. 1: 7 Sept. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-09-07
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.613.1.4
Page range: 47-54
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Reinstatement of Kalanchoe stearnii (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae; K. subg. Kalanchoe), a small-growing, rotundifolioid species, likely from southern Africa

Ria Olivier Herbarium; Department of Botany; Nelson Mandela University; P.O. Box 77000; Gqeberha; 6031 South Africa
Eudicots Kalanchoe rotundifolia southern Africa

Abstract

Following the recent refinement of the circumscription of Kalanchoe rotundifolia (Crassulaceae subfam. Kalanchooideae), K. stearnii is here reinstated as an accepted species. Kalanchoe stearnii is separated from K. rotundifolia, from which it differs by having shiny, light green, narrowly obovate leaves, and the adaxial corolla lobe surface that is yellow, while plants of K. rotundifolia are glaucous to dull light yellowish green, with the adaxial corolla lobe surface dull red to orange.

 

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