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Bryophyllum delagoense
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Family:
CRASSULACEAE
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Citation: Bryophyllum delagoense (Eckl. & Zeyh.) Druce, Rep. Bot. Soc. Exch. Club Brit. Isles 4: 611. 1916(1917).
Kalanchoe delagoensis Eckl. & Zeyh., Enum. Pl. Afric. Austral. 305 1837.
Bryophyllum tubiflorum Harv., Fl. Cap. 2: 380 1862.
Kalanchoe verticillata Elliot, J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 29: 14. 1891; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 103. 1982; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 346. 2009.
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Malayalam Name(s):
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English name(s):
Mother of Thousands
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Description:
Herbs, monocarpic, pale green mottled with violet-brown, glaucous; stems simple, terete, 5-20 × 0.5-1 cm. Leaves mostly in 3s, opposite or whorled, evenly spaced, simple; petiole and blade indistinguishable, reddish green to gray-green with reddish brown spots, narrowly oblong, subcylindric, grooved adaxially, 3-15 cm × 3-6 mm, margins entire except for 3-9 conic teeth at apex, apex blunt, surfaces not glaucous; bulbils borne between teeth, spurs spoon-shaped. Cymes mostly dense, corymbiform, 0.5-2 dm diam.; branches to 3 cm. Pedicels 5-30 mm. Calyx pale green, not inflated, 8-16 mm, tube 3-6 mm, lobes triangular, 5-10 mm, longer than tube, apex acuminate. Corolla orange to scarlet, 25-40 mm, not contracted basally, lobes obovate, 6-12 mm, apex rounded or apiculate.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
September-December
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Grown in gardens, also seen as an escape.
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Distribution:
Native of Madagascar
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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):
Red
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
Yes
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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