Sansevieria hallii
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Sansevieria hallii is a species of plant in the genus Sansevieria in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet honors Harry Hall (1906–1986), the English gardener and district manager for the succulent collection of the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in South Africa.
description
Sansevieria hallii grows without a trunk as a perennial , succulent plant with gray-orange 2 to 3 centimeters thick rhizomes . The one to three upright, cylindrically shaped leaves have a deep groove on the top. The simple leaf blade is up to 60 centimeters long and 5 centimeters thick. The leaves are dark grayish green with numerous longitudinal lines, young with indistinct transverse bands. They end in a 6 millimeter long blunt rounded or rounded spider tip. The spreading edge is maroon with a white edge. The leaf surface is rough.
The capitately dense inflorescences are up to 18 centimeters high. The panicles measure up to 16 centimeters in diameter. They are densely covered with flowers . The supporting sheet is triangular in shape and 18 by 6 millimeters in size. The bracts are white with a light purple tone. The flower tube is 5 to 8 millimeters long. The tips are 2 to 3 inches long.
distribution
Sansevieria hallii is common in Zimbabwe .
Taxonomy
The first description was in 1996 by B. Juan Chahinian .
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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. 76-77 .
- Leonard E. Newton: Sansevieria . In: Urs Eggli (Ed.): Succulents Lexicon . tape 1 Monocotyledons. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-8001-3662-9 , pp. 277 .
- Adrian Pawitra: Trubus' sansevieria, 200 Jenis Spektakuler, 400 photo . Trubus, Jawa Barat 2008, ISBN 978-979-936976-5 , p. 76 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 104.
- ↑ Chahinian: Sansevieria hallii: a new species from Zimbabwe . In: Sansevieria . Journal of the International Sansevieria Society, Number 5, 1996, pp. 7-10.
