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Kalanchoe lanceolata var. lanceolata
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Family:
CRASSULACEAE
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Citation: Kalanchoe lanceolata (Forssk.) Pers., Syn. 1: 446. 1805, var. lanceolata.
Cotyledon lanceolata Forssk., Fl. Aeg.-Arab. 89. 1775.
Kalanchoe floribunda Wight & Arn., Prodr. 359. 1834; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 414. 1878; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 450(319). 1919; Manilal, Fl. Silent Valley 100. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 192. 1990; Pradeep, Fl. Vellarimala 56. 2000.
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Description:
Large perennial, succulent, deciduous, glabrous herbs. Leaves opposite, fleshy, rounded or obtuse, crenate-serrate. Flowers yellow, in large trichotomous corymbose cymes; bracts linear-lanceolate. Calyx glabrous, divided nearly to the base; segments narrowly lanceolate, acute. Corolla yellowish-white, tube inflated, glabrous; lobes broadly lanceolate, acute. Stamens 8, in two series, adnate to the corolla tube. Carpels 4, adnate to the base of corolla tube, styles subulate, stigma oblique. Fruits with persitent shining white corolla tubes.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-June
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District(s):
Kozhikkode, Palakkad, Kannur
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Dry rocky slopes
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Distribution:
Peninsular India
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
Yellow
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
Peninsular India
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
-2160
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Localities:
Aruvanpara, Karasurymala, Vellarimala
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