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SANSEVIERIA - INFORMAL SPECIES LIST - PART 3

SANSEVIERIA - INFORMAL LIST OF SPECIES - PART 3

Stephen Jankalski

B. Inflorescence thyrsose racemes with flowers in interrupted cymose
fascicles.

# Leaf margin bicolored, whitish hyaline and with a brownish border.

6. Sansevieriae hyacinthoides group - Leaves flat to semicircular.

    *Asiatic species

S.burmanica N.E. Brown (1915) (S.roxburghiana sensu J.D. Hooker (1896))

S.ebracteata (Cavanilles) Suresh (1988) (S.lanuginosa Willdenow (1797) nom.
illegit.)

S.roxburghiana Schultes, f. (1829) (S.zeylandica sensu Roxburgh (1805))

S.zeylandica (L.) Willdenow (1797) (S.ceylonica Oken (1891) nom. illegit.,
S.indica Herter (1956) nom. illegit., S.ceylanica hort.)

7. Sansevieria pearsonii group - Leaves cylindrical, channeled on upper
side for their entire length, distichous.

S.eilensis Chahinian (1995) (S.sp.'Eyl', Lavranos 10179) Somalia

S.patens N.E. Brown (1915) ?Malawi (possibly same as plant described as
Sansevieria aff. gracilis in Thiede, Sansevieria Journ. 2 (2): 29-31, fig.
2 (1993) See also: Hargreaves, Cact. & Succ. Journ. Amer. 47 (supplement):
90, figs. 19-20 (1975))

S.pearsonii N.E. Brown (1911) (S.deserti N.E. Brown (1915), S.rhodesiana
N.E. Brown (1915), S.livingstoniae Rendle (1932), S.quarrei De Wildeman
(1932), S.cylindrica sensu Eyles (1916))  Angola, Namibia, Botswana, Zaire,
Zimbabwe, South Africa (Transvaal)

S.sordida N.E. Brown (1915) (origin unknown) Possibly synonymous with
S.volkensii

S.varians N.E. Brown (1915) ?South Africa (Transvaal) (Possibly same as the
plant described by Van Jaarsveld (Aloe 24 (3-4): 86, pl. (1987), Aloe 31
(1): 14 (1994)) from Transvaal as a form of S.pearsonii with mottled leaves
and often producing stolons above ground.)

S.volkensii Guerke (1895) (S.intermedia N.E. Brown (1914), S.humbertiana
Guillaumin (1940), S.polyrhytis (Chiovenda) Chiovenda ex Guidotti (1932))
Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia

8.  Sansevieria suffruticosa group - Leaves cylindrical (rarely laterally
compressed), channeled on upper side for part of their length.

S.caulescens N.E. Brown (1915) Kenya

S.francisii Chahinian (1995) Kenya (Frank K. Horwood #432, ISI 1579)

S.gracilis N.E. Brown (1915) Kenya, Tanzania

S.hargeisana Chahinian (1994) Somalia

S.'McLoughlin' (S.phillipsiae sensu R.A. Dyer & E.A. Bruce, Fl. Pl. Afr. 28
(1): pl. 1090 (1950))  Ethiopia  - Collected by Major A.G. McLoghlin.
Differs from S.phillipsiae by being columnar with roughened leaves, lacking
aerial stolons and having flowers with a longer tube.

S.phillipsiae N.E. Brown (1913) Somalia

S.suffruticosa N.E. Brown (1915) Kenya

S.suffruticosa var. longituba Pfennig (1981) Kenya

C. Inflorescence pseudocapitate racemes to umbelliform subcapitate on an
elongate to subsessile scape.

9. Sansevieria longiflora group - Adult plant with leaves flat and
rosulate; inflorescence on an elongate scape.

*Inflorescence pseudocapitate racemes.

S.aubrytiana Carriere (1861) (S.bracteata Baker (1878)) Gabon, Angola

S.longiflora Sims (1826) Angola, Congo, Namibia

S.longiflora var. fernandopoensis N.E. Brown (1915) Fernando Po

*Inflorescence umbelliform subcapitate.

S.kirkii Baker (1887) Tanzania, Kenya, Malawi

S.kirkii var. pulchra N.E. Brown (1915) Zanzibar

S.sambiranensis Perrier (1935) Madagascar

10.  Sansevieria fischeri group - Adult plant with solitary (rarely to
three), cylindrical or semicylindrical leaves; inflorescence umbelliform
subcapitate on an elongate to subsessile scape.

S.fischeri (Baker) Marais (1986) (S.singularis N.E. Brown (1911)) Kenya,
Somalia, Tanzania

S.hallii Chahinian (1996) (S.'Baseball Bat') Zimbabwe, South Africa
(Transvaal), Malawi (cultivars include  'Blue Bat', 'Lundi Bat', 'Pink
Bat', 'Malawi Bat')

S.stuckyi Godefroy-Lebeuf (1903) (S.andradae Godefroy-Lebeuf (1903))
Mozambique
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