Sansevieria hyacinthoides

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Sansevieria hyacinthoides
Sansevieria hyacinthoides: watercolor by Jan Moninckx from the third volume of the so-called Moninckx Atlas (1701)

Sansevieria hyacinthoides :
watercolor by Jan Moninckx from the third volume of the so-called Moninckx Atlas (1701)

Systematics
Monocots
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily : Nolinoideae
Genre : Bow hemp ( Sansevieria )
Type : Sansevieria hyacinthoides
Scientific name
Sansevieria hyacinthoides
( L. ) Druce
Sansevieria hyacinthoides in the habitat

Sansevieria hyacinthoides is a species of plant in the genus Sansevieria in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet hyacinthoides is derived from the name of the genus of hyacinths and the Greek -oides for 'to resemble'. Leonard E. Newton established the species Sansevieria hyacinthoides as a type species of the genus.

description

Sansevieria hyacinthoides grows without a trunk with a strongly developed rhizome . The two to eight succulent leaves stand upright. The simple leaf blade is lanceolate to broadly linear with a length of 15 to 60 centimeters and a width of 2.5 to 9 centimeters. They are narrowed from the middle or below in a rutty stem and are pale green with numerous closely spaced transverse bands that fade with age. The usually white, dried up spade tip is pointed or bluntly rounded with a length of up to 17 millimeters. The spreading edge is brownish-red and the leaf surface is smooth.

The simple annual inflorescences are 45 to 75 centimeters high. The panicles reach heights of 22 to 30 centimeters and are densely populated with two to six flowers per tuft. The ovate-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, pointed bract is 4 to 12.5 millimeters long and 1.4 to 3.2 millimeters wide. The flower stalk is 3.2 to 6.3 millimeters long. The whitish flowers are threefold. The flower tube is about 1.9 centimeters long.

The number of chromosomes is .

distribution

Sansevieria hyacinthoides is widespread in the eastern parts of South Africa in the provinces of Eastern Cape , KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga as far as tropical East Africa, where it forms dense groups mostly in the shade of trees or bushes.

Taxonomy

It was first described as Aloe hyacinthoides in 1753 by Carl von Linné . George Claridge Druce introduced the species to the genus Sansevieria in 1914 .

Synonyms for Sansevieria hyacinthoides (L.) Druce are: Aletris hyacinthoides (L.) L. , Cordyline hyacinthoides (L.) W.Wight. (1904), Aloe hyacinthoides var. Guineensis L. (1753), Aletris hyacinthoides var. Guineensis (L.) L. (1762), Aloe guineensis (L.) Jacq. (1762), Aletris guineensis (L.) Jacq. (1772), Acyntha guineensis (L.) Medik. (1786), Sansevieria thyrsiflora (Petagna) Thunb. (1794, nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 52.1), Veltheimia guineensis (L.) Neck. (1790), Salmia guineensis (L.) Cav. (1795), Salmia spicata Cav. (1795), Pleomele aloifolia Salisb. (1796), Sansevieria guineensis (L.) Willd. (1799, nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 52.1), Sansevieria laetevirens Haw. (1812), Sansevieria polyphylla Haw. (1812), Sansevieria spicata (Cav.) Haw. (1812), Sansevieria fulvocinta Haw. (1819), Sansevieria stenophylla Link (1821), Sansevieria latifolia Bojer (1837), Sansevieria ceylonica Oken (1841), Sansevieria angustiflora Lindb. (1871), Sansevieria rufocinta Baker (1875), Acyntha thyrsiflora (Thunb.) Kunze (1891), Sansevieria grandis Hook.f. (1903), Sansevieria grandis var. Zuluensis N.E.Br. (1915) and Cordyline guineensis (L.) Britton (1918).

proof

literature

  • CJ Couper: Sansevieria Thunberg . In: The European Garden flora . 1 Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae, Angiospermae - Monocotyledons (Part I). Cambridge University Press, London / New York 1986, ISBN 0-521-24859-0 , pp. 289 .
  • Peter A. Mansfeld: The genus Sansevieria - all kinds and their care . 1st edition. BoD, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-5142-1 , p. 80-81 .
  • Leonard E. Newton: Sansevieria . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon . tape 1 Monocotyledons. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 277 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names. Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 112.
  2. ^ LE Newton, (Ed.) Urs Eggli: Sansevieria. In: Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Monocotyledons . Volume 6, Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 2001, ISBN 3-540-41692-7 , p. 261.
  3. ↑ Species Plantarum . Volume 1, Lars Salvius, Stockholm 1753, p. 321 (online) .
  4. ^ Botanical Exchange Club and Society of the British Isles . Report No. 3, Manchester 1914, p. 423.

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