1109.000 Dracaena
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 Mozambique: 6 taxa. |
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Links to taxa: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this genus
| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| aletriformis (Haw.) Bos | M | |
| fragrans (L.) Ker Gawl. | MS,M | Description, Image |
| laxissima Engl. | N,Z | Description, Image |
| mannii Baker | N,Z,MS,GI,M | Description, Image |
| reflexa Lam. | N | |
| steudneri Engl. | T,MS | Description, Image |
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