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Sansevieria subspicata (N.E.Br.) Mbugua var. concinna [family DRACAENACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2007) Author: Geoffrey Mwachala & Paul Mbugua
Names
Sansevieria subspicata (N.E.Br.) Mbugua var. concinna [family DRACAENACEAE], stat. & comb. nov. Type: Mozambique, Beira, Dawe 1 (K!, holo.) Sansevieria concinna N.E.Br. [family DRACAENACEAE], in K.B. 1915: 233, fig. 14 (1915); L.E. Newton in Ill. Handbook Succ. Plants 1: 263 (2001)
Information
Rhizome 0.5 cm thick; scaly membranous leaves at leaf bases, much smaller in size than in var. subspicata. Leaves ascending-spreading and slightly recurving, narrowly lanceolate, (15–)23–27(–32)≈2–3(–5) cm, acute.
Range
DISTR. T 6
Altitude range
near sea level
Distribution
TANZANIA Rufiji District Misikitini, 12 Aug. 1937, Greenway 5060!
Distribution (external)
Mozambique South Africa
Notes
USES. No data. CONSERVATION Least concern. Sansevieria subspicata var. subspicata has been found only in Mozambique. This species has much longer flowers than S. parva. The leaves are coriaceous, shiny, erect and longer, with a deeper petiole channel and no surface rhizomes.

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2007) Author: Geoffrey Mwachala & Paul Mbugua
Names
Sansevieria subspicata (N.E.Br.) Mbugua var. concinna [family DRACAENACEAE], stat. & comb. nov. Type: Mozambique, Beira, Dawe 1 (K!, holo.) Sansevieria concinna N.E.Br. [family DRACAENACEAE], in K.B. 1915: 233, fig. 14 (1915); L.E. Newton in Ill. Handbook Succ. Plants 1: 263 (2001)
Information
Rhizome 0.5 cm thick; scaly membranous leaves at leaf bases, much smaller in size than in var. subspicata. Leaves ascending-spreading and slightly recurving, narrowly lanceolate, (15–)23–27(–32)≈2–3(–5) cm, acute.
Range
DISTR. T 6
Altitude range
near sea level
Distribution
TANZANIA Rufiji District Misikitini, 12 Aug. 1937, Greenway 5060!
Distribution (external)
Mozambique South Africa
Notes
USES. No data. CONSERVATION Least concern. Sansevieria subspicata var. subspicata has been found only in Mozambique. This species has much longer flowers than S. parva. The leaves are coriaceous, shiny, erect and longer, with a deeper petiole channel and no surface rhizomes.

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2007) Author: Geoffrey Mwachala & Paul Mbugua
Names
Sansevieria subspicata (N.E.Br.) Mbugua var. concinna [family DRACAENACEAE], stat. & comb. nov. Type: Mozambique, Beira, Dawe 1 (K!, holo.) Sansevieria concinna N.E.Br. [family DRACAENACEAE], in K.B. 1915: 233, fig. 14 (1915); L.E. Newton in Ill. Handbook Succ. Plants 1: 263 (2001)
Information
Rhizome 0.5 cm thick; scaly membranous leaves at leaf bases, much smaller in size than in var. subspicata. Leaves ascending-spreading and slightly recurving, narrowly lanceolate, (15–)23–27(–32)≈2–3(–5) cm, acute.
Range
DISTR. T 6
Altitude range
near sea level
Distribution
TANZANIA Rufiji District Misikitini, 12 Aug. 1937, Greenway 5060!
Distribution (external)
Mozambique South Africa
Notes
USES. No data. CONSERVATION Least concern. Sansevieria subspicata var. subspicata has been found only in Mozambique. This species has much longer flowers than S. parva. The leaves are coriaceous, shiny, erect and longer, with a deeper petiole channel and no surface rhizomes.
Sansevieria subspicata (N.E.Br.) Mbugua var. concinna [family DRACAENACEAE]
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