Sansevieria bacularis
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Sansevieria bacularis is a species of plant in the genus Sansevieria in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet bacularis comes from Latin and means 'stick, rod or staff' and refers to the cylindrical leaves.
description
Sansevieria bacularis grows without a stem as a perennial , succulent plant with single, occasionally two cylindrical, upright, slender leaves . The simple leaf blade is 1.25 to 1.70 meters long with a diameter of up to 1.5 centimeters. The leaves are dark green with lighter transverse bands and without longitudinal ribs. They end in a soft spreader tip. The base is covered by five to six lower leaves, which are dark purple when young, later dry to light brown and two to five inches long and two to three inches wide. The leaf surface is rough.
The single- eared inflorescences are 50 to 70 centimeters high. The panicles are covered with two to eight flowers per cluster. The bracts are white with purple stripes. The flower tube is 1.5 to 1.7 inches long. The tips are up to 2 millimeters long.
distribution
Sansevieria bacularis is widespread in the Democratic Republic of the Congo .
Taxonomy
It was first described in 2010 by Alan Butler and Stephen Jankalski .
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literature
- Peter A. Mansfeld: The genus Sansevieria - all kinds and their care . 1st edition. BoD, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-5142-1 , p. 44 .
- KD Morgenstern: The picture book of the Sansevierias . 1st edition. Illertaler Offsetdruck & Verlag GmbH, Kempten 1979, p. 28 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Alan Butler and Stephen Jankalski. Sansevieria bacularis sp. nova and species with which it has been confused . In: Sansevieria No. 22, 2010, pp. 3-9
