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La Croix, I. (2010) Dracaenaceae Flora Zambesiaca 13(2) 13-35
Obermeyer, A.A. (1992) Dracaenaceae: Sansevieria Flora of Southern Africa 5(3)
Stemless, coarse, evergreen, drought-hardy perennials, strongly rhizomatous and forming colonies. Rhizome cylindric, thick and fibrous. Leaves sessile, arranged in a rosette or distichously. Inflorescence a dense, cylindric raceme. Flowers numerous, subsessile, in irregular clusters along the scape, nocturnal, delicately scented. Perianth with a long narrow tube, bulbous at base, with 6 spreading to recurved lobes. Fruit a berry. Seeds 1-3, bony. Derivation of name: after Ramond de Sangro, born at Naples 1710, Prince of Sanseviero Worldwide: Over 100 species in the dry tropics and South Africa, Madagascar, south Asia and Arabia Zambia: 7 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Provinces | Content |
| aethiopica Thunb. | B | W | Description, Image |
| cylindrica Hook. | S | S | |
| downsii Chahin.[VU] | N | N | Description, Image |
| hyacinthoides (L.) Druce | B | W | Image |
| kirkii Baker | N,W | Cb,N,C | |
| longiflora Sims | B,S | S,W | |
| pearsonii N.E. Br. | B,W,C,S | Cb,C,S,W | Description, Image |
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