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Sansevieria guineensis

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Name

Identification
Sansevieria guineensis (L.) Willd. [family DRACAENACEAE ]
Related name
  • Sansevieria guineensis
Common name
  • African bowstring hemp, Flora of North America Vol. 26

Flora

Entry for SANSEVIERIA thyrsiflora Thunb. [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 thyrsiflora Thunb. [family DRACAENACEAE], Prodr. 65;—Fl. Cap. edit. Schult. 329; Baker in Journ. Linn. Soc. xiv. 547.
SANSEVIERIA spicata Haw. [family DRACAENACEAE], Syn. Succ. 66; Kunth Enum. v. 20.
SANSEVIERIA fulvo-cincta Haw. [family DRACAENACEAE], Suppl. Succ. 30.
SANSEVIERIA guineensis Kunth [family DRACAENACEAE], Enum. v. 16, ex parte.
SANSEVIERIA angustiflora Lindb. [family DRACAENACEAE], in Act. Soc. Fenn. x. 130, t. 5.
SANSEVIERIA rufo-cincta Hort. [family DRACAENACEAE]
Salmia spicata Cav. [family ], Ic. iii. 24, t. 246.
Information
leaves 6–12 in a cluster, nearly flat, oblanceolate, rigid, 6–18 in. long, 1 1/2–2 in. broad above the middle, narrowed gradually to a concave base, obscurely fasciated with cross-bands of white, margined with a distinct red-brown line; peduncle a foot or more long; raceme cylindrical, 9–12 in. long; pedicels 2–6-nate, 1/6– 1/4 in. long, articulated at the middle; bracts lanceolate, scariose; perianth 1 1/4–1 1/2 in. long; segments rather shorter than the tube; anthers oblong, pale yellow; style exserted beyond the segments. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Uitenhage Div., Thunberg! Zwartkops River, Zeyher, 612! Albany Div., Cooper, 3269! Enon., Baur, 1099! Stockenstrom Div., Scully, 163!

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