Sansevieria (Sansevieria gracilis)
Description
Sansevieria gracilis is a species of the genus Sansevieria in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). The specific epithet gracilis comes from the Latin and means 'petite, slender, thin' and refers to the leaves. Sansevieria gracilis grows stem forming as a perennial , succulent plant with over-the-ground foothills, which have a length of 15 to 90 centimeters and a thickness of 8 millimeters. They are covered with 12- to 25-millimeter-long scales, some of which turn into leaves. The trunk is 2 to 8 inches high. The eight to twelve standing on a shoot leaves are tightly spiraling, ascending or even spread. The simple leaf bladeis 25 to 80 inches long and 6 to 9 millimeters thick. It is 5 to 12.5 centimeters long hollow-rinnig from the base and cylindrically shaped upwards. It is dark green, sometimes with indistinct, narrow, darker transverse bands and slightly darker longitudinal lines. It gradually runs out into a 2 to 6 millimeter long, brown or whitish spit tip. The Spreitenrand is membranous white. The leaf surface is smooth with age. The single- aged inflorescences are up to 30 inches high. They have a light green stem. The panicles are loosely populated with up to two flowers per clump. The bract is lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, slightly pointed and 2 to 3 millimeters long. The peduncle is 1 to 2 millimeters long. The bracts are white. The flower tube is 2 to 2.5 inches long. The corners are 1 centimeter long and little above.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Asparagales
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Family: Asparagaceae
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Genus: Sansevieria
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