Sansevieria perrotii
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Sansevieria perrotii is a species of plant in the genus Sansevieria in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet honors the French pharmacist and botanist Émile C. Perrot (1867–1951).
description
Sansevieria perrotii grows as a perennial , upright and succulent plant with a stem that is up to 20 centimeters high and 2.5 centimeters wide and covered by leaf bases. The eight to twelve leaves are arranged in two rows, ascending or spread out and cylindrical in shape. They are compressed on the sides and have a deep wide groove on the top. The simple leaf blade is 91 to 152 inches long and 1 to 1.5 inches thick. They gradually narrow down into a whitish, hard spider tip. The spreading edge is reddish brown, the edge is white.
The terminally panicle inflorescences are up to 120 centimeters high. The panicles are loosely covered with two to four flowers per tuft. The flower tube is more or less than 1.2 centimeters in size. The bracts are pale greenish. The tips are about 1 centimeter long, whitish inside and violet outside.
distribution
Sansevieria perrotii is widespread in Tanzania between bushes on coral limestone.
Taxonomy
The first description of Sansevieria perrotii was in 1901 by Otto Warburg .
Synonyms for Sansevieria perrotii Warb. are: Acyntha robusta (NEBr.) Chiov. (1932) and Sansevieria robusta N.E.Br. (1915).
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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. 206 ( online ).
- Peter A. Mansfeld: The genus Sansevieria - all kinds and their care . 1st edition. BoD, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-5142-1 , p. 94 .
- Leonard E. Newton: Sansevieria . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon . tape 1 Monocotyledons. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-8001-3662-9 , pp. 280 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 183.
- ↑ The tropical planter . Journal for Tropical Agriculture, organ of the Colonial Economic Committee, edited by O. Warburg and F. Wohltmann, vol. 5, 1901, p. 190.
