Sansevieria cylindrica
Sansevieria cylindrica
Sansevieria cylindrica is a species of the genus Sansevieria in the family of asparagus plants ( Asparagaceae ). The specific epithet cylindrica means (Latin cylindricus ) cylindrical, schlanksäulig, terete '.
Description
Sansevieria cylindrica grows as a perennial stemless succulent plant with 2.5 to 3.8 cm thick rhizomes, some of which have some basal scales. The 3-6 double-spaced asked terete leaves are upright, cylindrical or slightly compressed laterally. You can also spread, bent back or strong spread occur. The simple leaf blade is 60 to 150 inches long and at the bottom 2 to 3 inches thick. She is green or whitish green with dark green cross- bands. The hard and narrowed Spreitenspitze is 4.2 to 6.4 mm long and whitish. The leaf surface is slightly rough.
The simple inflorescences aged men are 60 to 90 inches high. The 38-75 centimeters long panicles are occupied by five to six flowers per clump. The support sheet is ovate lanceolate or lanceolate and 4 to 8.5 millimeters long. The bloom is pink snow white or often slightly. They have a 1.7 to 2.5 centimeters long flower tube.
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Dissemination
Sansevieria cylindrica is in Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe in the arid lowlands to Luanda and from there south to Benguella, north spread to the mouth of the Congo high mostly under three to four feet dry woody plants. Hugo tree reports of large stocks under trees and shrubs and near termite mounds along the Chitanda River, between Kakele and Goudkopje and in the region between the rivers Kunene and Kubango in Amboland.
Taxonomy
The first description of Sansevieria cylindrica in 1859 by William Jackson Hooker.
Synonyms for Sansevieria cylindrica Bojer ex Hook. are Acyntha cylindrica ( Boii ex Hook. ) Kuntze (1891 ), Cordyline cylindrica ( Boii ex Hook. ) Britton (1923 ), Sansevieria angolensis Welw. ex Carriére (1861 ) and Sansevieria cylindrica var patula NEBr. (1915 ).