Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi Raymond-Hamet & Perrier de la Bâthie (1915: 75)

Gallo, Lorenzo & Smith, Gideon F., 2024, A review of the genus Kalanchoe (Crassulaceae subfam. Cotyledonoideae) in the Euro-Mediterranean area, with an annotated catalogue and identification key, Phytotaxa 674 (2), pp. 171-198 : 179

4. Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi Raymond-Hamet & Perrier de la Bâthie (1915: 75) ( Fig. 4 ).

Type:— MADAGASCAR. Fianarantsoa province. Mount Tsilongabalala, 1000 m above sea level, near Ihosy, Mangoky, September 1911, [J.M.] H. [A.] Perrier de la Bâthie 11797 (lectotype P barcode P00431060! [Image of the specimen available for examination online at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/p/p00431060]), treated as “ holotype ” by Boiteau & Alorge-Boiteau (1995: 104), corrected to lectotype by Smith & Shtein (2021c: 132).

Epitype:— MADAGASCAR. [Southwestern] Madagascar. Fianarantsoa province. Ihosy Valley, Mangoky Basin , 800–1000 m above sea level, on rocky slopes, 29–30 October 1924, [ J.- H.] Humbert 2989 bis (epitype P barcode P03353732 ! [Image of the specimen available for examination online at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/ mnhn/p/p03353732]; isoepitypes P barcode P03353735 ! [Image of the specimen available for examination online at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/p/p03353735], P barcode P03353736 ! [Image of the specimen available for examination online at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/p/p03353736]), epitype designated by Smith & Shtein (2021c: 132) .

Iconography:— Hurrell et al. (2013), Smith & Figueiredo (2017a, 2019), Smith (2024c).

Secondary distribution:— Spain = cited by Saez & Aymerich (2021), in Catalonia as “Rarely escaped or persistent after cultivation”, Senar Lluch (2016), Guillot Ortiz (2016), Aymerich & Saez (2019), Aymerich (2020). Portugal = Randall (2017) and cited by Sirovs (2014) for Estremadura.

[Also in Argentina, Macaronesia (Azores, Madeira), Mexico, New Zealand, South Africa, U.S.A.]

Figures

FIGURE 4. Depending on the growing phase and level of stress experienced, bulbils are borne at the indentations along the leaf margins of Kalanchoe fedtschenkoi. The bulbils will easily root where they fall on a suitable rooting medium. (Photograph: Gideon F. Smith).