Sansevieria dawei

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Sansevieria dawei
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Sansevieria dawei

Systematics
Monocots
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily : Nolinoideae
Genre : Bow hemp ( Sansevieria )
Type : Sansevieria dawei
Scientific name
Sansevieria dawei
Stapf

Sansevieria dawei is a species of plant in the genus Sansevieria in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet dawei honors the botanist Morley Thomas Dawe (1880–1943) who found the type specimen .

description

Sansevieria dawei grows without a stem as a perennial , succulent plant with at least 2.5 centimeters thick rhizomes . The two to three leaves are ascending or semi-upright and are lanceolate in shape. The simple leaf blade is 60 to 150 inches long and 5.7 to 11 inches wide. It is narrowed from the base, below the middle, into a long or short, runny stem. The leaves are matt dark green and glauk . Above the middle they run into a sharply pointed, narrowed leaf blade. The spreading edge is reddish brown. The leaf surface is smooth. The underside is a little rough.

The single- eared inflorescences are 45 to 75 centimeters high. The panicles are densely covered with three to four flowers per tuft. The bract is ovate or ovate-elongated, pointed or almost blunt and is 8 to 17 millimeters in size. The flower stalk is 4 to 6 millimeters long. The bracts are grayish white. The flower tube is 2 to 2.5 inches long. The tips are 2 inches long.

distribution

Sansevieria dawei is common in Kenya , Uganda , Rwanda and Burundi in open woodlands between 600 and 1,300 meters above sea level.

Taxonomy

The first description of Sansevieria dawei was in 1906 by Otto Stapf .

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. 247 ( online ).
  • Peter A. Mansfeld: The genus Sansevieria - all kinds and their care . 1st edition. BoD, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-5142-1 , p. 61 .
  • Leonard E. Newton: Sansevieria . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon . tape 1 Monocotyledons. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-8001-3662-9 , pp. 275 .
  • Adrian Pawitra: Sansevieria, 200 Jenis Spektakuler , 400 photo . Trubus, Jawa Barat 2007, ISBN 978-979-936976-5 , p. 23 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 61.
  2. ^ Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany . Volume 37, London 1906, p. 529 (online) .

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