Sansevieria concinna
| Sansevieria concinna | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sansevieria concinna |
||||||||||||
| Systematics | ||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
| Scientific name | ||||||||||||
| Sansevieria concinna | ||||||||||||
| NEBr. |
Sansevieria concinna is a species of plant in the genus Sansevieria in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet concinna comes from Latin and means 'graceful, well-formed'.
description
Sansevieria concinna grows without a trunk as a perennial , succulent plant with approximately 1.25 centimeters thick rhizomes . The more or less than five rosette leaves are spread out and lanceolate in shape. The simple leaf blade is 15 to 25 inches long and 1.25 to 3 inches wide. It is narrowed from the base into a 4 to 9 centimeter long rutted stem and provided with green with pale green transverse bands. The green spade tip is 4 to 8 millimeters long and sub-sub. The green edge of the spade is hardly hardened. The leaf surface is smooth.
The single- eared inflorescences are 15 to 30 centimeters long. They have a green, purple colored, and spotted stem. The panicles are densely covered with one to two flowers per tuft. The bracts are lanceolate and pointed and 6 to 9 millimeters long. The flower stalk is 3 to 4 millimeters long. The bracts are white. The flower tube is up to 4.5 inches long. The tips are 2 inches long.
distribution
Sansevieria concinna is distributed in Mozambique , Tanzania , Zimbabwe and in South Africa in Natal in the shade of coastal forests on sandy soil.
Taxonomy
The first description of Sansevieria concinna was in 1915 by Nicholas Edward Brown .
A synonym for Sansevieria concinna N.E.Br. is: Sansevieria subspicata var. concinna (NEBr.) Mbunga (2007).
proof
literature
- Peter A. Mansfeld: The genus Sansevieria - all kinds and their care . 1st edition. BoD, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-5142-1 , p. 56-57 .
- Leonard E. Newton: Sansevieria . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon . tape 1 Monocotyledons. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-8001-3662-9 , pp. 277 .
- Adrian Pawitra: Sansevieria, 200 Jenis Spektakuler , 400 photo . Trubus, Jawa Barat 2007, ISBN 978-979-936976-5 , p. 62 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 52.
- ^ 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. 233-234 ( online ).
