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Plant Detail
Botanical Name
Sansevieria roxburghiana - (Schult.) Schult.
Family
Agavaceae
Common Name
Nagin, Snake plant
Habit
Herb
Synonym
Sansevieria zeylanica Roxb.
Habitat
Planted
Color Of Flower
Greenish-white
Key Characters
Leaves flattened, not groove, with broad yellow margins.
Systematic Position
Division :
Monocotyledonae
 
Class :
Epigynae
 
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Plant Description

Acaulescent, perennial herb or undershrub; leaves flattened, fleshy, narrowed at base, transversely banded by dark green patches, gradually attenuated, about 30-50 cm long; flowers numerous in facicles of 5-15 cm long, stout, narrow, scape with branched or unbranched racemes; perianth white, tube short, lobes-6, linear-oblong, connate below the middle; stamens 6, filaments filiform, shorter than the perianth; ovary ovoid; ovules solitary, style filiform, stigma slightly thickened; fruits berries, 1-3 seeded.

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