Kalanchoe thyrsiflora (also known as paddle plant, flapjacks, desert cabbage, white lady, geelplakkie, meelplakkie, or plakkie ^{[citation needed]}) is a species of flowering plant native to Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa and Swaziland.

Kalanchoe thyrsiflora
Kalanchoe thyrsiflora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Saxifragales
Family:	Crassulaceae
Genus:	Kalanchoe
Species:	K. thyrsiflora
Binomial name
Kalanchoe thyrsiflora Harv.

Taxonomy

The name Kalanchoe thyrsiflora was first validly published for this southern African species by William Henry Harvey in 1862.[1] Based on an error introduced in The Plant List in 2012, the name K. thyrsiflora has been treated by some as a synonym of K. tetraphylla.[2] However, these two names apply to two distinct species.[3][4][5][6] The name K. tetraphylla dates from 1923 and applies to a different species confined to Madagascar.

Description

It is a succulent plant producing a stalk about 1m tall, which dies back after flowering. It forms a basal rosette of large, rounded, fleshy, stalkless leaves, which are grayish-green with red margins, covered with a white powdery bloom. The inflorescence is terminal and erect with densely clustered thyrse-like panicles of greenish waxy flowers with yellow recurved lobes, narrowly urn-shaped. The plant flowers from autumn to spring, and is common in grassveld amongst rocks.

Gallery

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  Flowers
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  Habit and habitat
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  Leaves close up
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  Flower close up
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  Red tinged leaves
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  Top view of leaves
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  Bunch of flowers

References

External links

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