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Taxon: Cordyline australis (G. Forst.) Endl.

Genus: Cordyline
Family: Laxmanniaceae. Also placed in: Agavaceae Asteliaceae Lomandraceae
Nomen number: 11503
Place of publication: Prodr. fl. Norfolk. 29. 1833 (J. D. Hooker, Gard. Chron. 1860:792. 1860)
Name verified on: 11-Apr-2000 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 11-Apr-2000
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Common names:

  • cabbage-palm   (Source: BSBI )
  • cabbagetree   (Source: Hortus 3 )
  • dracena-azul   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  • dracena-das-montanhas   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005)
  • fountain-dracaena   (Source: Hortus 3 )
  • giant-dracaena   (Source: Hortus 3 )
  • grass-palm   (Source: Hortus 3 )
  • palm-lily   (Source: Hortus 3 )
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Economic importance:

  • Food additives: sweetener   (fide Pl Book)
  • Environmental: ornamental   (fide Hortus 3)

Distributional range:

Native:
  • AUSTRALASIA
    New Zealand: New Zealand
Other:
  • cultivated elsewhere

References:

  • Allan, H. H. B. et al. 1961–. Flora of New Zealand. (F NZeal)
  • Botanical Society of the British Isles. 2007. BSBI checklist. (BSBI)
  • Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage. (Zander ed14)
  • Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
  • Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). (Krussmann) [lists as C. australis Hook.].
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3) [lists as C. australis (G. Forst.) Hook. f.].
  • Parsons, M. J. et al. 1995. Current names for wild plants in New Zealand. (L NZeal)
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
  • Täckholm, V. & M. Drar. 1954–. Flora of Egypt. (F EgyptT&D) [lists as C. australis Hook. f.].
  • Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin) [lists as C. australis (G. Forst.) Hook. f.].
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Cordyline australis (G. Forst.) Endl.:

  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?11503 (21 November 2009)

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