Kalanchoe costantini var. unguifera Shtein & Gideon F.Sm.
External links to taxonomic opinions:
- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77215770-1
- Species Name
- Kalanchoe costantini Raym.-Hamet, Bull. Herb. Boissier Ser. II. vii. 889 (1907).
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Crassulaceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- N. Dumetz 1302
- Locality
- Toliara province (now the Anosy region), Préfecture de Fort-Dauphin [now Tôlañaro, alternatively spelled ‘Tolagnaro’], forêt sèche de Vinanibe, 100m
- Collection Date
- 17 Oct 1990
- Type Herbaria
- holotype P P-P00431159
- Distribution Of Types
- Madagascar (Western Indian Ocean, Africa)
Remarks
doi:10.11646/phytotaxa.482.2.1 The varietal epithet is derived from the Latin 'unguis' meaning 'nail, claw', and feminine '-fera' meaning 'to bear, to carry', to denote the uniquely incurved petals and sepals, and indented calyx that all have a clawlike appearance.