Kalanchoe crenata is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae. It is a perennial with yellow or orange flowers. The species is native to Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, and was described in 1798.
Taxonomy Henry Cranke Andrews described the species in 1798, and placed it in the genus Vereia. In 1812, Adrian Hardy Haworth placed it in the genus Kalanchoe.
Distribution Kalanchoe crenata is native to Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, South Africa (Cape Provinces and KwaZulu-Natal), the Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, islands in the Gulf of Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. It has been introduced to the Bahamas, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Florida, Guatemala, the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, and Vietnam. The species mainly grows in seasonally dry tropical areas.
The species grows in sunny places at the edges of forests, and by roadsides and streams. It is present at elevations of .
Description Kalanchoe crenata is a perennial succulent subshrub or epiphyte. It grows high. The leaves are yellowish-green, ovate to oblong, long, and wide. The leaf stems are long.
The inflorescence is a rounded thyrse. The corolla is a yellow or orange tube, measuring long. The corolla has orange lobes, which are long, and wide. The calyx has narrowly triangular to ovate lobes, which are long. The plant flowers from August to October.
The seeds are around long.
Uses Kalanchoe crenata is used in medicine, and has environmental and social uses.
Nomenclature In English, Kalanchoe crenata is commonly known as "scalloped kalanchoe" or "neverdie".
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