Sansevieria burmanica
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Sansevieria burmanica is a species of plant in the genus Sansevieria in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet burmanica refers to the occurrence in Burma, today's Myanmar .
description
Sansevieria burmanica grows without a trunk as a perennial , succulent plant with a 1.8 centimeter thick, underground rhizome . The 8 to 13 rosetted, upright, closed leaves are linear-lanceolate, flat-shaped or with a light, broad, angular groove on the top and a blunt keel on the underside. The simple leaf blade is 45 to 75 inches long and 1 to 3 inches wide. The leaves are grass green with paler bands and have up to three longitudinal stripes on the upper side and up to nine embossed lines on the underside. The tip of the leaf is sub rather narrowed, soft and 2.5 to 10 inches long. The leaf margin is green with age and also whitish. The leaf surface is smooth.
The single- eared inflorescences are up to 60 to 76 centimeters long. The panicles are loosely covered with two to five flowers per tuft. The bract is lanceolate and pointed and about 2 to 4 millimeters long. The bracts are greenish-white. The flower tube is 7.5 to 8.5 millimeters long. The tips are about up to 8.5 millimeters long.
distribution
Sansevieria burmanica is found in bush forests and in steppe-like landscapes in India , Myanmar and also in Sri Lanka from 100 meters above sea level. spread.
Taxonomy
The first description of Sansevieria burmanica was in 1915 by Nicholas Edward Brown .
A synonym for Sansevieria burmanica N.E.Br. is: Sansevieria maduraiensis Binojk. (2002).
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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. 52-53 .
- Peter A. Mansfeld: Believed to be lost: Sansevieria burmanica . In: Sansevieria Online , vol. 1, issue 1, from November 1, 2013, pp. 4–10. (online) .
- 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
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 34.
- ^ 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. 228-230 ( online ).
