Sansevieria arborescens
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Sansevieria arborescens is a species of plant in the genus Sansevieria in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet arborescens comes from Latin and means 'tree-shaped' and refers to the growth habit.
description
Sansevieria arborescens grows as a perennial , succulent plant with an upright, densely-leafed trunk with an underground rhizome and a height of up to 1.50 meters and a diameter of up to 3 centimeters. The spirally bent back or bent back and spread out leaves are linear-lanceolate or linear. The simple leaf blade is flat, 15 to 22 inches long and up to 3 inches wide and 6 millimeters thick. The surfaces are smooth, grass-green with hardened brownish tips and whitish or reddish slightly wavy edges.
The paniculate branched inflorescences are up to 55 centimeters long. The panicles are loosely covered with four to six flowers per tuft. The bract is lanceolate and pointed and about 2 to 3 millimeters long. The flower stalk is 6 millimeters long. The bracts are white. The flower tube is 6 to 7 millimeters long. The tips are about 9 millimeters long.
The number of chromosomes is .
distribution
Sansevieria arborescens is common in Tanzania and Kenya in the penumbra of the lowlands and the Acacia bushland.
Taxonomy
The first description of Sansevieria arborescens was in 1903 by Joseph Gérôme and MO Labroy .
A synonym for Sansevieria arborescens Cornu ex Gérôme & Labroy is: Sansevieria zanzibarica Gérôme & Labroy (1903).
proof
literature
- Nicholas Edward Brown : Sansevieria - a monograph of all the known species (with plates) . In: Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, No. 5 . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1915, p. 198 ( online ).
- Peter A. Mansfeld: The genus Sansevieria - all kinds and their care . 1st edition. BoD, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-5142-1 , p. 42 .
- Leonard E. Newton: Sansevieria . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon . tape 1 Monocotyledons. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-8001-3662-9 , pp. 272-273 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 13.
- ^ J. Gérôme, O. Labroy: Sur la collection de Sansevieria des serres du Muséum; Tableau Synoptique des Espéces et Notes sur leur Multiplication . In: Bulletin du Muséum d'histoire naturelle . Vol. 9, 1903, p. 173 (online) .
