Shrublets to shrubs with branches spreading, fleshy but somewhat woody towards base, often regenerating from base
Leaves opposite, free or slightly fused, fleshy, persistent or deciduous, rarely regenerating from base
Inflorescence a thyrse consisting of several dichasia usually ending in monochasia with few to many flowers; peduncle present or absent with gradual transition from leaves to shorter bracts below flowers; flowers spreading or stiffly erect, 4-merous
Calyx 4-partite
Corolla with 4 petals fused into a tube longer than spreading lobes
Stamens 8, in 2 whorls; filaments glabrous and medially fused to corolla tube; anthers included, with ± spherical terminal appendage
Squamae 4, free
Carpels 4, free, with ovary gradually constricted into styles with terminal stigma
Seeds ellipsoid, with a constriction and abruptly widening at blunt proximal end, covered with vertical ridges and dense horizontal striations in grooves
x = 17 (aneuploids, high polyploidy)
Nomenclature:
Kalanchoe Adans.
Adanson: 248 (1763)
Candolle: 394 (1828)
Harvey: 378 (1862)
Bentham & Hooker: 659 (1865)
Britten: 390 (1872)
Berger: 402 (1930)
Keay: 116 (1954)
Friedrich: 37 (1968)
Tölken: 61 (1985)
Distribution & Notes:
Global: Species ± 200; tropical Africa, Madagascar, S and SE Asia and N Australia
Southern Africa: Species 13, restricted to the summer-rainfall areas excluding most parts of S Namibia and most of the Eastern Cape
References:
ADANSON, M. 1763. Familles des plantes 2. Vincent, Paris
BENTHAM, G. & HOOKER, J.D. 1865. Genera plantarum 1. Reeve, London
BERGER, A. 1930. Crassulaceae. Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien 2, 18a
BRITTEN, J. 1872. Crassulaceae. Flora of tropical Africa 2
CANDOLLE, A.P. DE. 1828. Crassulaceae. Prodromus 3. Treuttel & Würtz, Paris
FRIEDRICH, H. 1968. Crassulaceae. Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 52
HARVEY, W.H. 1862. Crassulaceae. Flora capensis 2
KEAY, R.W.J. 1954. Crassulaceae. Flora of west tropical Africa, 2nd edn 1,1
TÖLKEN, H.R. 1985. Crassulaceae. Flora of southern Africa 14
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