Sansevieria zeylanica

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Sansevieria zeylanica
Sansevieria zeylanica from Les Liliacées, plate 290

Sansevieria zeylanica from Les Liliacées , plate 290

Systematics
Monocots
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily : Nolinoideae
Genre : Bow hemp ( Sansevieria )
Type : Sansevieria zeylanica
Scientific name
Sansevieria zeylanica
( L. ) Willd.

Sansevieria zeylanica is a species of plant in the genus Sansevieria in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet zeylanica refers to the place where it was found, Ceylon at that timeand now Sri Lanka.

description

Sansevieria zeylanica grows trunk-forming as a perennial , succulent plant with strong creeping rhizomes up to 1.3 centimeters thick . The five to eleven leaves stand upright at the bottom on a stem, slightly bent back at the top and are linear to semi-cylindrical in shape with a groove on the top. The simple leaf blade is 45 to 76 inches long, 8 to 20 millimeters wide and 5 to 8 millimeters thick. It narrows into a 12.7 to 38 millimeter long, green, soft and awl tip. The leaves are dark green with a light green cross-markings and on the back with 4 to 7 dark green longitudinal lines. The edge of the spread is green. The leaf surface is almost smooth.

The simple annual inflorescences are 30 to 61 centimeters long. The panicles are densely covered with flowers . The supporting sheet is 84 millimeters long. The flower stalks are short. The bracts are white and measure 2.5 to 3.8 centimeters in diameter. The flower tube is up to 3.2 inches long. The tips are up to 3.5 inches long.

The number of chromosomes is or .

distribution

Sansevieria zeylanica is widespread in Sri Lanka and India on rocky and sandy spots in arid regions, Mauritius, and Myanmar and Thailand .

Taxonomy

The first description of Sansevieria zeylanica was in 1753 as Aloe hyacinthoides var. Zeylanica by Carl von Linné . In 1799, Karl Ludwig Willdenow introduced the species to Sansevieria .

Synonyms for Sansevieria zeylanica (L.) Willd. are: Acyntha zeylanica (L.) Kuntze (1891), Aloe hyacinthoides var. zeylanica L. (1753), Aloe zeylanica (L.) Jacq. (1762), Cordyline zeylanica (L.) Britton (1930) and Sansevieria indica Herter (1956, nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 52.1).

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. 226-227 ( online ).
  • NL Britton : Flora of Bermuda . Charles Scribner's Sons, New York 1918, p. 72 ( online ).
  • Peter A. Mansfeld: The genus Sansevieria - all kinds and their care . 1st edition. BoD, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8482-5142-1 , p. 114 .
  • Leonard E. Newton: Sansevieria . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon . tape 1 Monocotyledons. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-8001-3662-9 , pp. 283-284 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Birkhäuser, Basel / Boston / Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-7643-2390-6 , p. 699.
  2. ^ National Botanic Gardens Lucknow-India: Sansevieria . 1st edition. National Botanic Gardens, Lucknow-India 1959, p. 16 .
  3. ↑ Species Plantarum . Lars Salvius: Stockholm, Volume 1, 1753, p. 321 (online) .
  4. ↑ Karl Ludwig Willdenow. In: Species Plantarum . Editio Quarta. Volume 2, Berolini (Berlin) 1799, p. 159 (online) .

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