1109.000 Dracaena Vand. ex L.

La Croix, I. (2010) Dracaenaceae Flora Zambesiaca 13(2) 13-35

Description of the genus

Trees (in ours), shrubs or herbs. Leaves spirally arranged, crowded (in ours) in apical rosettes. Inflorescence a terminal panicle. Flowers whitish, fragrant, nocturnal. Perianth tubular; lobes, 6, recurved. Fruit a spherical or lobed, orange-scarlet berry. Seeds 1-3, rounded, bony.

Worldwide: 60 species in the tropical Old World extending to Canary Is, 1 in Central America and 1 in Cuba

Malawi: 5 taxa.

Dracaena mannii

Links to taxa:     View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus

SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
afromontana Mildbr.[VU]N
fragrans (L.) Ker Gawl.N,C,SDescription, Image
laxissima Engl. N,C,SDescription, Image
mannii BakerN,C,SDescription, Image
steudneri Engl.N,C,SDescription, Image

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Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Dracaena

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Tropicos: Dracaena
Wikipedia: Dracaena

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Malawi: Genus page: Dracaena.
https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=357, retrieved 7 December 2024

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