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

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Species in Sansevieria

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

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

Statistics

The Plant List includes 131 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Sansevieria. Of these 66 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 14 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 131 species names for the genus Sansevieria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	66	50.4%
◕	Synonym	63	48.1%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	1.5%

All names

The status of the 145 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Sansevieria recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	69	47.6%
◕	Synonym	74	51.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	2	1.4%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 9 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 131 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Sansevieria, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	66	61	0	0	127	96.9%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	0.8%
	Low confidence	0	1	0	2	3	2.3%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Sansevieria, are as follows: