Bryophyllum pinnatum
Date collected: December 04, 1999
Collected by: Joyce Ann Edgar
Synonym:
- Genus species: Bryophyllum pinnatum [Tentative identification by D. Lee Ling]
- Family: Crassulaceae
- English name:
- Chuukese name:
- Kosraean name:
- Mwokilese name: Lamlam
- Yapese name:
- Growth form: Shrub
- Growth location: terrestrial
- Growth environment: cultivated garden
- Growth zone: tropical
- Average height: 75 cm
- Stem: thick. kind of smooth; thick
- Leaf arrangement: opposite
- Stipule: absent
- Petioles: 4-6 cm
- Leaf blade: crenate shape; obcordate tip; cordate to oblique base; pinnate venation
- Inflorescence:
- Floral bracts: none
- Flower: none observed at collection time
- Calyx: none observed at collection time
- Corrola: none observed at collection time
- Stamens: none observed at collection time
- Ovary: none observed at collection time
- Style: none observed at collection time
- Fruit: none
- Seed: none
- Anything else: plant-like structures are formed between the leaf margin; fell off and a
plant grows
- Cultural usage:
See also:
http://www.hear.org/pier3/brpin.htm
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/6400/kalanchoe/kalanchoe.html
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