Distribution Map

Kalanchoe montana

               
(Kalanchoe sp.)
(Kalanchoe luciae subsp. montana)

Crassulaceae Kalanchoideae  

Eswatini Red List status (2002): DD

Global status (2024) VU - Vulnerable B1ab(iii)+2ab(iii), 6 herbarium specimens, 3 photo records

South African Red List status: LC (2018)

IUCN Red List: VU B1ab(iii)+2ab(iii)

Global Distribution: NE1, Endemic to Limpopo Mpumalanga Eswatini Escarpment centre of endemism
Found within protected areas: Malolotja

Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Kalanchoe montana - Robust, succulent, all parts minutely glandular-downy. Leaves in basal rosette from which rise few spreading shoots, each with few pairs of leaves and ending in branching inflorescences, not flat-topped, and with axillary flowering branches above. Leaves entire, flat, thick, rounded at tip, up to 18 cm long x 7 cm wide above middle. Flowers on very short stalks, erect-spreading; sepals c 9 mm long; corolla tube rather broad, c 13 mm long, throat scarcely narrowed, lobes spreading, slightly turned upwards, c 5 mm long, greenish-yellow.

* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.

Notes:
Global distribution information: southern Africa includes southern Mozambique and southern Zimbabwe.
Restricted distribution has been based on an estimated extent of occurence of less than 100 000 km2 and/or an estimated area of occupancy of 100 km2, based on geo-referenced GBIF and iNaturalist data.