Kalanchoe thyrsiflora (also known as paddle plant, flapjacks, desert cabbage, white lady, geelplakkie, meelplakkie, or plakkie [citation needed]) is a species of flowering plant native to Botswana, Lesotho, South Africa and Eswatini.

[2][3] The name Kalanchoe thyrsiflora was first validly published for this southern African species by William Henry Harvey in 1862.

[4] Based on an error introduced in The Plant List in 2012, the name K. thyrsiflora has been treated by some as a synonym of K.

It forms a basal rosette of large, rounded, fleshy, stalkless leaves, which are grayish-green with red margins, covered with a white powdery bloom.

The inflorescence is terminal and erect with densely clustered thyrse-like panicles of greenish waxy flowers with yellow recurved lobes, narrowly urn-shaped.