This tiny species, from southern Kenya and Tanzania, has numerous forms and appears to us to be an endpoint in the continuum of the S. suffruticosa group. These plants, originally collected in 1970 by John Lavranos (Lav 7537) from Maungu Hill east of Voi, Kenya, have thin, relatively long and rough cylindrical leaves. This plant was confused for decades with Sansevieria hargeisana as Lav 1970 clone 2. These plants are rooted offsets in one-gallon pots.