Sansevieria ehrenbergii
Sansevieria ehrenbergii
Sansevieria ehrenbergii is a species of the genus Sansevieria in the family of asparagus plants ( Asparagaceae ). The specific epithet honors the German biologist Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, professor at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin.
Description
Sansevieria ehrenbergii growing stemless or stem as forming perennial, succulent plant with about 3 centimeters thick rhizomes. The stem is erect to 25 inches high. The five to nine located on a scion succulent leaves are two lines found in a fan -like, erect or spreading and laterally compressed with a triangular groove along the top provided. The simple leaf blade is 76-180 centimeters long and 3 to 4.5 inches wide. It is dark green with five to twelve blackish green, shallow longitudinal grooves. Above the middle it suddenly goes into 6.5- to 20 millimeters long, very hard, thorny Spreitenspitze over. The Spreitenrand is reddish brown with white membranous edge. The leaf surface is slightly rough. In seedlings, the leaves are made short and not initially two lines.
The paniculate inflorescences are up to two meters high. The panicles densely covered with four to seven flowers per clump. The flower stem is 2 to 4 millimeters long. The bloom is purple to white. They have a 5 to 6.5 mm long corolla tube.
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Dissemination
Sansevieria ehrenbergii is widespread in Yemen, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Tanzania. She prefers the shade of thickets or small trees in 400 to 1100 meters above sea level.
Taxonomy
The first description of Sansevieria ehrenbergii was made in 1875 by John Gilbert Baker.
Ehrenbergii synonyms for Sansevieria Schweinf. ex Baker are Acyntha ehrenbergii ( Schweinf. ex Baker ) Kuntze (1891 ), Acyntha rorida ( NEBr. ) Chiov. (1916 ), Dracaena hanningtonii Baker (1898), Pleomele hanningtonii ( Baker) NEBr. (1914), Sanseverinia rorida Lanza (1910) and Sansevieria rorida ( Lanza ) NEBr. (1915 ).