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Re: anybody seen this plant?

Dear Hermine,

Ah yes, but do they have any locality or collector's data to go with them?
It would be nice to finally pin the plant down to an actual wild locality!
Which of Pfennig's numbers could it be?

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Sansevieria metallica var. longituba N.E. Brown is stated to differ from
the typical variety by having flowers with a tube about 8.75 cm. long
(verses 3.75 to 5 cm. long) and flower stems brownish-green or dull
purplish, thickly speckled with pale green (verses light green). Both
varieties have pedicles articulate (jointed) close to the flower base.

The species is easily distinguished from the closely allied Sansevieria
hyacinthoides (even in the broad sense) by the much longer lance-shaped
leaves, often longer than one meter in length. The leaves are attractively
mottled but not quite as intensely as Sans.kirkii. They have a faint
bluish-gray tinge, especially when young. The rhizomes are bright red.

Cereusly Steve

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•Subject: Re: [SANS] anybody seen this plant?
•From: hermine
•Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 14:37:28 -0700
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>Last year, the plant a CSSM member has in his collection flowered and it
>keyed out exactly to Sanseviera metallica var. longituba N.E. Brown in
>Brown's monograph. That was most amazing because Brown grew it at Kew from
>plants received from the Paris Botanic Garden in 1906 did not know the
wild
>origin. I listed it under the latter name in my informal species list. It
>would be nice to know where in Mozambique it originates and who collected
>it. Plants that resemble the original Sansevieria metallica have been
>reported from Natal in South Africa.

Then i have this under two names, one from Pfennig as the correct one as
you state, and also from a botanical gardens in Hungary.

hermine
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