Sansevieria trifasciata
Sansevieria trifasciata
Sansevieria trifasciata is a species of the genus Sansevieria in the family of asparagus plants ( Asparagaceae ). The specific epithet means trifasciata (Latin trifasciatus ) dreibänderig '.
Description
Sansevieria trifasciata grows as a perennial stemless succulent plant with sturdy 1.3 to 2.5 centimeters thick creeping rhizomes. The one to two ( rarely to 6) leaves stand upright on a shoot. They are linear, lanceolate and flat. The simple leaf blade is 30 to 160 centimeters long and 2.5 to 8 inches wide. You narrowed gradually more or less from the middle or above in a rinnigen stem. The green Spreitenspitze is 3.2 to 3.8 millimeters long and subulate. The grass-green, sometimes slightly glauken leaves are alternate with whitish to light green and deep grass green to black-green transverse bands drawn. The Spreitenrand is green. The leaf surface is smooth.
The easy- aged men inflorescences are 30-76 inches high. The flower stem is green with pale green dots. The panicles are loosely filled with three to eight flowers per clump. The bract ovate or ovate - lanceolate, pointed, and from 3.2 to 12.7 millimeters long. The flower stem is 5.3 to 8.5 millimeters long. The bloom are white. The flower tube is 0.64 to 1.27 inches long. The tip is 1.48 to 1.9 inches long.
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Dissemination
Sansevieria trifasciata native to Central Africa mainly in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Large stocks are also found in other parts of the world, as the most popular type of Sansevieria has been introduced repeatedly by the people in a big way. In India and in many other subtropical countries the type already considered as wild. Simultaneously with the distribution and the large popularity as houseplants was also a large number of cultivars.
Taxonomy
The first description of Sansevieria trifasciata was made in 1903 by David Prain.
Sansevieria trifasciata Prain are synonyms for: Sansevieria craigii Hort. (1912 ), Sansevieria jacquinii N.E.Br. (1911 ), Sansevieria laurentii De Wild. (1904 ), Sansevieria trifasciata laurentii var ( De Wild. ) NEBr. (1915 ) and Sansevieria zeylanica var laurentii ( De Wild. ) LHBailey (1963).
Sansevieria trifasciata From there a large number of cultivars. The zwergigste of them is ' Hahnii '; there are other descendants with differences in leaf size, degree of variegation and greens. (for example)
Sansevieria trifasciata ' Hahnii Green Leaves'
Sansevieria trifasciata ' Laurentii '
Sansevieria trifasciata ' Moonshine '
Sansevieria trifasciata 'Super marginata '