''Kalanchoe mortagei'' is a species of ''

Kalanchoe ''Kalanchoe'' , also written ''Kalanchöe'' or ''Kalanchoë'', is a genus of about 125 species of tropical, succulent plants in the stonecrop family Crassulaceae, mainly native to Madagascar and tropical Africa. A ''Kalanchoe'' species was on ...

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Bryophyllum ''Bryophyllum'' (from the Greek ''bryon/bryein'' = sprout, ''phyllon'' = leaf) is a group of plant species of the family Crassulaceae native to Madagascar. It is a section or subgenus within the genus ''Kalanchoe'', and was formerly placed at ...

'') native to northern

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

. It is very similar to ''K. suarezensis'', and both of them used to be mistakenly treated as varieties of a totally different species ''K. poincarei''. ''K. mortagei'' differs by having auriculate to peltate leaves, while the leaf base of ''K. suarezensis'' is attenuate to truncate.

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{{taxonbar, from=Q15486990 mortagei mortagei Endemic flora of Madagascar Taxa named by Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie