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Sansevieria zeylanica

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Name

Identification
Salmia spicata Cav. [family HAEMODORACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Sansevieria zeylanica Willd. [family DRACAENACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Sansevieria thyrsiflora Thumb. [family DRACAENACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Salmia spicata
  • Sansevieria thyrsiflora
  • Sida pinnata
  • Aletris guineensis
  • Sansevieria zeylanica
  • Sida plumosa

Flora

Entry for SANSEVIERIA zeylanica Willd. [family DRACAENACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, page 1, (1897) Author: (By J. G. BAKER).
Names
SANSEVIERIA zeylanica Willd. [family DRACAENACEAE], Sp. Plant. ii. 159;—Red. Lil. t. 290; Bot. Reg. t. 160; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 548.
Aletris hyacinthoides Linn. var. zeylanica [family MELANTHIACEAE], Sp. Plant. 456.
Aloe zeylanica Jacq. [family ALOACEAE], Hort. Vind. 310.
Aletris zeylanica Mill. [family MELANTHIACEAE], Dict. edit. 8, No. 4.
SANSEVIERIA æthiopica Thunb. [family DRACAENACEAE], Prodr. 65; Kunth Enum. v. 19.
Information
leaves 8–15 in a cluster, semiterete, 1/2–1 ft. long, an inch broad at the base, 1/3– 1/2 in. thick at the middle, rounded on the back, deeply channelled down the face, margined with a distinct red line; peduncle a foot or more long; raceme dense, cylindrical, 1/2–1 ft. long; pedicels 3–6-nate, 1/12– 1/6 in. long, articulated above the middle; perianth 1 1/4 in. long; segments about as long as the tube; stamens shorter than the segments; anthers oblong, 1/8 in. long; style exserted beyond the tip of the segments. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa and Tropical Asia.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Near Graaff Reinet, Bolus, 720!COAST REGION Uitenhage, Burchell, 4420! Zuurbergen, Cooper, 3267! Albany Div., Cooper, 3268!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West, near Griqua Town, Burchell, 1824!
Notes
S. paniculata(Schinz Conspect. Fl. Afric. 141), from Port Alfred, Schoenland, 290! proves to be Dracæna Hookeriana, K. Koch.

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