[Sansevierias] S. 'Socotra' - a Glasshouse invention?

Its been a number of years since the name S. Socotra was discussed here. Hermine will have to verify this, but I believe this name is not valid. It is a made-up name that implies it came from Socotra. Glasshouse doesn't seem to like plants named with only a collection number. 'Lav. 309' is not a very sexy name.

We have taken Glasshouse Works to the woodshed here over and over again as a purveyor of BAD names. I have visited them personally with my brother, Dale, some 12+ years ago and found few names on their plants. I surmised they are not judicious about accuracy of names, or what they send out.  Sansevierias are not their forte, and they don't take kindly to anybody correcting their errors.

Olga made reference to the name 'socotra' in a previous message and I made, and attached here, full scans of the 3 pertinent pages in the Sansevieria Journal for any who might want to read what J. Chahinian said about the plant called Socotra. It is a bit confusing for me to follow given my God-given inability to juggle more than 2 concepts in my head at once, but the pages will print on 8.5 X 11 paper which makes it a bit easier.

This whole Socotra / Lake Sibaya / Concina thing makes my head hurt to think about it. The bottom line to me is this about Jude's picture of "Socotra from Glasshouse": Jude, I see no sign of a petiole on your plant. It looks  like it could be S. subspicata. But thats jus' me.
M.

----- Original Message -----From: Jude Haverington <[email protected]>To: [email protected]: Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:11:43 -0000 (UTC)Subject: Re: ���: ���: [Sansevierias] Sans longiflora [1 Attachment]



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Hi,
Thanks for the lovely photo! 
I have a photo of my Socotra. I have no idea how big it will get, but it is turning into a very nice plant. It's pretty unusual. 



On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 5:50 AM, Цвето Мания <[email protected]> wrote:

 


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Jude had mentioned a Socotra bought from Glasshouseworks and that was I asked  for a picture of )
I must have expressed myself incorrectly. Sorry about that. But since we have a nice discussion of S.longiflora I'd like to show mine too.