English: Bushveld kalanchoe; Six-angled kalanchoe; Red-leaved kalanchoe.
Region: Southern Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique.
Habitat: rocky slopes; in the shade or partial shade of trees or shrubs; in bushland.
BotanyHerb; succulent; perennial; 20 to 100 centimeter talls.
Stem: single or few, simple, upright, round, reddish shoots; two-to-six-sided; arise from a woody base.
Leaves: fleshy; ± stalked; rutty petiole is 4 to 45 millimeters long;encompass the stem only on the upper leaves; broadly elliptical, elongated or egg-shaped; green to deep ruby-red; 5 to 13 inches long, 3 to 8 inches wide; tip is rounded or blunt; base of the lower leaves is heart-shaped, that of the upper is wedge-shaped; margin is roughly notched or wavy-notched or with one to four bluntly toothed lobes.
Inflorescence: flat-topped panicles; 30 cm in long.
Flowers: upright; green-yellow to bright yellow; 2 to 7 millimeter long peduncles; green calyx tube is 0.5 to 2 mm long; triangular, pointed calyx lobes are 1.5 to 2.2 millimeters long and about 1.2 millimeters wide.
Corolla: tube; pale pink; square-cylindrical to almost pyramidal; 8 to 13 millimeters long; petals salmon-colored, broadly egg-shaped to almost circular, narrowed or rounded at their tip, 2 to 4 mm long, 1 to 3 mm wide.
Androecium: stamens attached to the tip of the corolla tube; upper stamens protrude from the flower; anthers almost circular, 0.4 to 1 mm long; nectar flakes are linear-lanceolate, pointed; to 4 mm long.
Gynoecium: carpel 6 to 10 mm long; stylus is 1 to 4 mm long.
Seeds: ± 1 mm.