Kalanchoe pinnata ( Lamarck 1786: 141 ) Persoon (1805: 446)

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 : 184-185

10. Kalanchoe pinnata ( Lamarck 1786: 141) Persoon (1805: 446) ( Fig. 9 ).

Type:—Isle de France [ MAURITIUS] Sonnerat s.n. (holotype P barcode P00297646! [Image of the specimen available for examination online at https://science.mnhn.fr/institution/mnhn/collection/p/item/p00297646]); see Wickens (1987: 27) and Smith & Figueiredo (2018).

Iconography:— Mordant de Launay & Loiseleur-Deslongchamps (1816 [as Bryophyllum calycinum Salisbury (1805 : t. 3)], Sarwar (2016), Maire (1977), Walters et al. (2011: 244).

Secondary distribution:— Portugal = Almeida & Freitas (2006), with an unkown distribution (See also Almeida 2012). Egypt = Wickens (1994).

[Also in Angola, Argentina, Caribbean, Democratic Republic of the Congo, India, Japan, Macaronesia ( Cape

Verde, Azores, La Gomera, Gran Canaria), Mexico, New Zealand, Pakistan, Reunion, South Africa, U.S.A.]

Figures

FIGURE 9. Kalanchoe pinnata, also known as Goethe’s kalanchoe, is often grown as a curiosity plant for its ability to sprout multiple new plants from a leaf. (Photograph: Gideon F. Smith).