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Sansevieria zeylanica (Sansevieria zeylanica)

Description

Sansevieria zeylanica grows stem forming as a perennial,succulent plant with vigorous up to 1.3 centimeters thick creeping rhizomes.The five to eleven leavesare upright at a shoot down, slightly bent back above and are linear to semi-cylindrical shaped with a groove on the top. The simple leaf bladeis 45 to 76 inches long, 8 to 20 millimeters wide and 5 to 8 millimeters thick.It narrows into a 12.7 to 38 millimeters long, green, soft and peachy Spreitenspitze. The leaves are dark green with a bright green cross-section and the back with 4 to 7 dark green longitudinal lines. The Spreitenrand is green.The leaf surface is almost smooth

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum:

        • Class: Liliopsida

          • Order: Asparagales

            • Family: Asparagaceae

              • Genus: Sansevieria