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Re: [SANS] Questions about the Sansevieria pearsonii complex and other things

>What about Chahinian's (1993) unnamed Zimbabwean flat leafed species? Could
>his S.sp. 'Shamva'

S. sp. 'Shamva" is the name i gave in a temporary sort of way, as i am not
a taxonomist, to a plant i grew from seed collected in Zimbabwe when it was
still Rhodesia. from the Rhodesian Cactus and succulent Society...which
proably had another name back then.  perhaps 16 years ago. it was
wild-collected, in a region called "Shamva". I have not ever seen it for
sale elsewhere, and nobody much asks for it here unless they see it.

'Koko' refers to Eby's plants taken from a neglected colection in that part
of hawaii. they were fairly well on the border of extinction when he began
to care for them and propagate from cuttings. but they of course were all
introduced.

>
>N.E. Brown (1915) listed 54 Sansevieria species in his monograph. Horst
>Pfennig (1977) (Gartenpraxis 3: 506-511) said about 70 species had been
>described by that time. It seems when the dust finally settles and a number
>of names prove synonymous that the number will once again be about 50
>species, even with recently described species.  I have put together a
>provisional list of all the validly named species and their synonymy for my
>own amusement.
>
>Is there a complete listing somewhere of all the cultivated clones known
>only by collector numbers and localities?
>
>Does anyone know anything about Sansevieria 'Mutomo'? The name is a town in
>Kenya. It looks like S.suffruticosa by having rugose and striate leaves but
>the leaves are laterally compressed even when well watered. Who is the
>collector and is there any more info on its origin?
>
>If there is interest, I can post original descriptions of other little
>known species. Can anyone out there translate German or French into
>English?
>

French is easier for me, yes, and i would love to do this!

Horst pfennig in a letter once said he thought gracillis was very widely
dispersed and a very variable plant, bearing a large number of names, all
of which should hve been ...gracillis subspecies or forma  "something"


hermine
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