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SANSEVIERIA zeylanica Willd. [family DRACAENACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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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