Dracaena sanderiana information from NPGS/GRIN

United States Department of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Area
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Taxon: Dracaena sanderiana hort. Sander ex Mast.

Genus: Dracaena
Family: Asparagaceae subfamily: Nolinoideae. Also placed in: Agavaceae Convallariaceae Dracaenaceae Liliaceae Ruscaceae
Nomen number: 449327
Place of publication: Gard. Chron. ser. 3, 13:442, fig. 65. 1893 Apr 15
Comment: spelling and authorship verified from original literature
Name verified on: 15-Dec-2005 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 28-Sep-2006
No species priority site assigned.

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

Check PlantSearch database of Botanic Gardens Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.

Common names:

Belgian evergreen (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
lucky-bamboo (Source: Pl Names ) – English
ribbonplant (Source: Zander ed17 ) – English
panaschierter Drachenbaum (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

Environmental: ornamental (fide Dict Gard)

Distributional range:

Native:

AFRICA
West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon

Cultivated:

also cultivated

References:

Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Dracaena sanderiana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Dracaena sanderiana.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Dracaena sanderiana.

Check other web resources for Dracaena sanderiana hort. Sander ex Mast.:

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.

Check other web resources for images:

PlantSystematics.org
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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USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
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?449327 (26 May 2013)

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