Kalanchoe marmorata Baker (1892: 300)

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

9. Kalanchoe marmorata Baker (1892: 300) ( Fig. 8 ).

Type:— Abyssinia [ ETHIOPIA]. Choa [ Shewa ], Ifat, s.d., Richard Quartin-Dillon & Antoine Petit s.n., (holotype P barcode P00374095 ! [Image of the specimen available for examination online at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/ mnhn/p/p00374095]; isotypes P barcode P00374096 ! [Image of the specimen available for examination online at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/p/p00374096], P barcode P00374097 ! [Image of the specimen available for examination online at http://coldb.mnhn.fr/catalognumber/mnhn/p/p00374097]) .

Iconography:—Smith (2021, 2022). Secondary distribution: Tunisia = cited by El Mokni & Saez (2019a). [Also in New Zealand, likely cultivated only] Notes:—Smith (2021, 2022) discussed the nomenclature of K. marmorata and showed that the type of this name is that of the illegitimate K. grandiflora Richard (1848: 310) non Wight & Arnott (1834: 359). For Castellón, Spain, Guillot Ortiz (2020a) cited K. marmorata as cultivated only.

Figures

FIGURE 8. The leaves of the most widely grown variant of Kalanchoe marmorata are adorned with erratically scattered, purple blotches. (Photograph: Gideon F. Smith).