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The genus Sansevieria is in the family Asparagaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Sansevieria

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Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source	Date supplied	Infra. rec.
Sansevieria aethiopica Thunb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria arborescens Cornu ex Gérôme & Labroy	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria arborescens Gentil	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Sansevieria ascendens L.E.Newton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria aubrytiana Carrière	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria bacularis Pfennig ex A.Butler & Jankalski	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria bagamoyensis N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria ballyi L.E.Newton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria bella L.E.Newton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria braunii Engl. & Krause	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria burdettii Chahin.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria burmanica N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria canaliculata Carrière	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria caulescens N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria concinna N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria conspicua N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria cylindrica Bojer ex Hook.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria cylindrica Bojer	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Sansevieria dawei Stapf	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria downsii Chahin.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria dumetescens L.E.Newton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria ebracteata (Cav.) Suresh	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria ehrenbergii Schweinf. ex Baker	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria eilensis Chahin.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria erythraeae Mattei	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria fasciata Cornu ex Gérôme & Labroy	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria fischeri (Baker) Marais	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria forskaliana (Schult. & Schult.f.) Hepper & J.R.I.Wood	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria francisii Chahin.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria frequens Chahin.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria gracilis N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23	1
Sansevieria gracillima Chahin.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria grandicuspis Haw.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria hahnii hort.	Unresolved		TRO	2012-04-18
Sansevieria hallii Chahin.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria hargeisana Chahin.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria humiflora D.J.Richards	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria hyacinthoides (L.) Druce	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria × itumea (Mbugua) Jankalski	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria kirkii Baker	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria liberica Gérôme & Labroy	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria longiflora Sims	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria longistyla la Croix	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria masoniana Chahin.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria metallica Gérôme & Labroy	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria nilotica Baker	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria nitida Chahin.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria parva N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria patens N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria pearsonii N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria pedicellata la Croix	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria perrotii Warb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria pfisteri D.J.Richards	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria phillipsiae N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria pinguicula P.R.O.Bally	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria powellii N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria powysii L.E.Newton	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria raffillii N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria roxburghiana Schult. & Schult.f.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria sambiranensis H.Perrier	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria scimitariformis D.J.Richards	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria senegambica Baker	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria sinus-simiorum Chahin.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria sordida N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria stuckyi God.-Leb.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria subspicata Baker	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria subtilis N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria suffruticosa N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria trifasciata Prain	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria varians N.E.Br.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria volkensii Gürke	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23
Sansevieria zeylanica (L.) Willd.	Accepted		WCSP	2012-03-23

Statistics

The Plant List includes 174 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Sansevieria. Of these 69 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 27 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Sansevieria. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 174 species names for the genus Sansevieria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	69	39.7%
◕	Synonym	102	58.6%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	1.7%

All names

The status of the 201 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Sansevieria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	70	34.8%
◕	Synonym	128	63.7%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	1.5%

Of the species names,

• 2 are recorded as invalid
• 9 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 174 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Sansevieria, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	69	100	0	0	169	97.1%
	Medium confidence	0	2	0	0	2	1.1%
	Low confidence	0	0	0	3	3	1.7%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the genus Sansevieria is as follows: