page_title: Bryophyllum
section_title: Taxonomy
hierarchical_section_title: Bryophyllum / Taxonomy
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Kalanchoe prolifera (Syn. Bryophyllum proliferum). Schauhaus der Stadtgärtnerei Bern, Elfenau.
context_page_description: Bryophyllum is a group of plant species of the family Crassulaceae that is usually included as a section within the genus Kalanchoe, but has also been considered to be a separate genus. There are about forty species in the group, native to South Africa, Madagascar, and Asia. The group is notable for vegetatively growing small plantlets on phylloclade margins and tips. The plantlets drop off phyloclades and can root and grow into new plants in favorable places. The plantlets arise from mitosis of meristematic-type tissue in phyllocades.
  Nowadays, bryophyllums are naturalized in many parts of the tropics, and deliberately cultivated for their attractiveness, interesting reproduction by plantlets on phylloclades, or both.
context_section_description: Bryophyllum is not universally accepted as a separate genus, being included in Kalanchoe by some authorities, within subfamily Kalanchoöideae. Since species of Bryophyllum appear to be nested within Kalanchoe on molecular phylogenetic analysis, Bryophyllum is considered as a section of the former.
caption: Bryophyllum proliferum
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