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Sansevieria kirkii L.E. Newton var. kirkii [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 kirkii L.E. Newton var. kirkii [family DRACAENACEAE], ;in Ill. Handbook Succ. Plants 1: 267 (2001)
Sansevieria aubrytiana Carr. [family DRACAENACEAE], in Rev. Hort. 1861: 448 (1861), nomen nudum
Sansevieria aubrytiana Gérôme & Labroy [family DRACAENACEAE], in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 9: 169, 173, fig. 9 (1903). Type: Gabon, Aubry-Lecomte s.n. (P, holo.)
Information
Leaves greyish green, light grass-green and greyish green beneath, as if densely dusted with green and whitish or pale-green, slightly shining above, opaque beneath; 3–4 longitudinal dark green lines, 3–9 on under-surface. Inflorescence bracts ovate or oblong-ovate; lower inflorescence bracts ovate, 5–7.5 cm long.
Range
DISTR. K 7; T 3, 4; Z, P
Altitude range
0–900 m
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Kaya Fungo, June 1994, Luke 4012 & June 1994, Luke 4013TANZANIA Lushoto District Amani–Muhesha road, 4 km E of Sigi railway station, 27 July 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 3504!TANZANIA Ufipa District Sumbawanga, Kasanga, 25 Nov. 1959, Richards 11839!TANZANIA Iringa District Livingstone Mountains, lower valley of Ngolo River, 3.4 km above Lupingu, 1 Feb. 1991, Gereau & Kayombo 3825!TANZANIA Pemba Ngezi Forest, 1 Oct. 1902, Lyne 105!
Distribution (external)
Gabon
Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Notes
USES. Sir John Kirk said in 1881 it “… yields a most excellent fibre”. CONSERVATION Least concern. Cultivated specimens tend to have longer and more pronounced petioles than specimens from the wild.
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 kirkii L.E. Newton var. kirkii [family DRACAENACEAE], ;in Ill. Handbook Succ. Plants 1: 267 (2001)
Sansevieria aubrytiana Carr. [family DRACAENACEAE], in Rev. Hort. 1861: 448 (1861), nomen nudum
Sansevieria aubrytiana Gérôme & Labroy [family DRACAENACEAE], in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 9: 169, 173, fig. 9 (1903). Type: Gabon, Aubry-Lecomte s.n. (P, holo.)
Information
Leaves greyish green, light grass-green and greyish green beneath, as if densely dusted with green and whitish or pale-green, slightly shining above, opaque beneath; 3–4 longitudinal dark green lines, 3–9 on under-surface. Inflorescence bracts ovate or oblong-ovate; lower inflorescence bracts ovate, 5–7.5 cm long.
Range
DISTR. K 7; T 3, 4; Z, P
Altitude range
0–900 m
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Kaya Fungo, June 1994, Luke 4012 & June 1994, Luke 4013TANZANIA Lushoto District Amani–Muhesha road, 4 km E of Sigi railway station, 27 July 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 3504!TANZANIA Ufipa District Sumbawanga, Kasanga, 25 Nov. 1959, Richards 11839!TANZANIA Iringa District Livingstone Mountains, lower valley of Ngolo River, 3.4 km above Lupingu, 1 Feb. 1991, Gereau & Kayombo 3825!TANZANIA Pemba Ngezi Forest, 1 Oct. 1902, Lyne 105!
Distribution (external)
Gabon
Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Notes
USES. Sir John Kirk said in 1881 it “… yields a most excellent fibre”. CONSERVATION Least concern. Cultivated specimens tend to have longer and more pronounced petioles than specimens from the wild.
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 kirkii L.E. Newton var. kirkii [family DRACAENACEAE], ;in Ill. Handbook Succ. Plants 1: 267 (2001)
Sansevieria aubrytiana Carr. [family DRACAENACEAE], in Rev. Hort. 1861: 448 (1861), nomen nudum
Sansevieria aubrytiana Gérôme & Labroy [family DRACAENACEAE], in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 9: 169, 173, fig. 9 (1903). Type: Gabon, Aubry-Lecomte s.n. (P, holo.)
Information
Leaves greyish green, light grass-green and greyish green beneath, as if densely dusted with green and whitish or pale-green, slightly shining above, opaque beneath; 3–4 longitudinal dark green lines, 3–9 on under-surface. Inflorescence bracts ovate or oblong-ovate; lower inflorescence bracts ovate, 5–7.5 cm long.
Range
DISTR. K 7; T 3, 4; Z, P
Altitude range
0–900 m
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Kaya Fungo, June 1994, Luke 4012 & June 1994, Luke 4013TANZANIA Lushoto District Amani–Muhesha road, 4 km E of Sigi railway station, 27 July 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 3504!TANZANIA Ufipa District Sumbawanga, Kasanga, 25 Nov. 1959, Richards 11839!TANZANIA Iringa District Livingstone Mountains, lower valley of Ngolo River, 3.4 km above Lupingu, 1 Feb. 1991, Gereau & Kayombo 3825!TANZANIA Pemba Ngezi Forest, 1 Oct. 1902, Lyne 105!
Distribution (external)
Gabon
Zambia
Malawi
Mozambique
Notes
USES. Sir John Kirk said in 1881 it “… yields a most excellent fibre”. CONSERVATION Least concern. Cultivated specimens tend to have longer and more pronounced petioles than specimens from the wild.
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