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Huernia schneideriana A.Berger

Apocynaceae

No habitat climate Photographs not checked Cactus or succulent
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Summary

Huernia schneideriana, commonly known as the red dragon flower or medusa hair plant, is a perennial succulent in the dogbane and oleander family Apocynaceae, native to Tanzania in eastern Africa. The species is a popular houseplant because of its long, cascading leaves, and shallow crimson flowers. Introduced specimens of Huernia schneideriana have been spotted in Mexico, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, Brazil, and India.

Text from Wikipedia, “Huernia schneideriana”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Huernia

The genus Huernia consists of perennial, stem succulents from Eastern and Southern Africa and Arabia, first described as a genus in 1810.

Text from Wikipedia, “Huernia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Apocynaceae
Described by
A.Berger
Native to
Tanzania
Wild records
none in range

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Huernia, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeTanzania
Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “seasonally dry tropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced records inside the stated native range.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Huernia schneideriana, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Occurrence Download
GBIF.Org User (2023) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
Occurrence Download
GBIF.Org User (2023) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Other Huernia 3 in the reference

Huernia engleri Apocynaceae
Huernia mccoyi Apocynaceae
Huernia witzenbergensis Apocynaceae

History & registers

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gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate nothing to report
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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.