Re: Отв: Отв: Отв : [Sansevierias] Sans longiflora

thank you for this, i was just about to plunge my arms up to the 
elbow in Sansevieria information in order to be able to cite chapter 
and verse. I remember when the alleged species from Socotra came in, 
was distributed as such until John Lavranos said this is wrong. and a 
great changing of labels took place in the land!

hermine



>Sansevieria "Socotra" is actually a member of the
>Sans.subspicata-Sans.concinna complex from Mozambique. John Lavranos who
>has collected extensively on Socotra says that no Sansevierias are found on
>Socotra, according to Grigsby (1987). Grigsby (1987) refers the collection
>to Lavranos 309 but Chahinian (1992) did more extensive research on the
>problem and states that the collection is actually Lavranos 5949 from north
>of Massinga, Mozambique.
>
>Chahinian, B.J. (1992) SANSEVIERIA CASE REOPENED. The Sansevieria Journal 1
>(1): 7-9, 3 figs.
>
>Grigsby, D. (1987) SANSEVIERIA LOST AND FOUND? Cact. & Succ. Journ. Amer.
>59 (2): 43, 1 fig.