Sansevieria mikephillipsii R.H.Webb & L.E.Newton
, Sansevieria Online 10(2)-1: 3 (2022).- IPNI Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
- urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77301945-1
- Publication
- Sansevieria Online
- Collation
- 10(2)-1: 3
- Date of Publication
- 15 Jul 2022
- Family as entered in IPNI
- Dracaenaceae
Type Information
- Collector Team
- Specks ES 20425
- Locality
- Kitonga Gorge, c. 60 km east-northeast of Iringa, 1000 m
- Type Herbaria
- holotype DSM
- Latitude
- 7° 39' S
- Longitude
- 36° 12' E
- Distribution Of Types
- Tanzania (East Tropical Africa, Africa)
- Type Remarks
- Cultivated: the original plants were distributed by Ernst Specks of Exotica Nursery in Germany and propagated from material originally collected in the Kitonga Gorge of central Tanzania.
Nomenclatural Notes
[epublished]
Remarks
Etymology: the specific epithet is named for the late Mike Phillips (1947-2020), who was an early influential member of the International Sansevieria Society, and who made a preliminary description of this species 21 years before the authors observed it flowering.