Entry for SANSEVIERIA Kirkii Baker [family DRACAENACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 7, page 331, (1898) Author: (By J. G. BAKER.)
Names
SANSEVIERIA KirkiiBaker [family DRACAENACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1887, May, 8 and 3, fig. 3. —Bot. Mag. t. 7357.
Information
Leaves not more than 3–4 to a tuft, oblanceolate, 3 ft. long. 3 in. broad at the middle, narrowed gradually to 1 in. at the base, very rigid, flat in the upper half when mature, channelled in the lower half, 1 in. thick, and subterete with a rounded facial groove at the base, obscurely mottled with white, with a narrow red-brown marginal line. Peduncle much shorter than the leaves; lower empty bracts large, ovate. Raceme short, dense; flowers about 6 to a bract; pedicels 1/3– 1/2 in. long, Perianth 5–6 in. long; lobes 1 1/2 in. long. Stamens as long as the perianth-lobes. Style considerably exserted.
Introduced into cultivation by Sir John Kirk in 1881. It flowered at Kew for the first time in 1893.There are in the Kew Herbarium leaves of the same or a nearly allied plant collected by Sir John Kirk at Lupata in 1860.
