Kalanchoe Adans.

• Authority

  Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.

• Family

  Crassulaceae

• Scientific Name

  Kalanchoe Adans.

• Description

  Description - Erect herbs, sometimes a little woody, with opposite leaves and panicled flowers, often showy. Calyx 4-parted, shorter than the corolla. Corolla salverform, with a swollen tube and a spreading, 4-parted limb. Stamens usually 8, in 2 series on the corolla-tube, the filaments very short. Carpels 4, lanceolate, adnate to the base of the corolla-tube; ovules many. Follicles many-seeded. [Chinese name.] Twenty species or more, all but the following natives of Asia and Africa. Type species: Cotyledon laciniata L.