Sansevieria bagamoyensis

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Sansevieria bagamoyensis
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Sansevieria bagamoyensis

Systematics
Monocots
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily : Nolinoideae
Genre : Bow hemp ( Sansevieria )
Type : Sansevieria bagamoyensis
Scientific name
Sansevieria bagamoyensis
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Sansevieria bagamoyensis is a species of the genus Sansevieria in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet bagamoyensis means' from the location in the Bagamoyo district in Tanzania .

description

Sansevieria bagamoyensis grows as a perennial , succulent plant with an upright, leafy trunk. The spirally bent back or bent back and spread out leaves are linear-lanceolate or linear. The simple leaf blade is flat, 34 to 40 inches long and up to 2.5 inches wide and 3 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 40 to 50 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 6.5 millimeters long.

distribution

Sansevieria bagamoyensis is distributed in Tanzania in the penumbra of the coastal bushland at an altitude of 100 to 200 m.

Taxonomy

The first description of Sansevieria bagamoyensis was in 1913 by Nicholas Edward Brown .

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. 197 ( 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. 273 .

Individual evidence

  1. Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 21.
  2. ^ Nicholas Edward Brown : Diagnoses Africanae LV. In: Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Issue XLVIII . Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1913, p. 306 ( online ).

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