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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.

Common names:

  • Belgian evergreen   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  • lucky-bamboo   (Source: web document) – English
  • ribbonplant   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – English
  • panaschierter Drachenbaum   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
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Economic importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)

Distributional range:

      Native:
  • AFRICA
    West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon

      Cultivated:
  • also cultivated

References:

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Check other databases 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.
    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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Cite as:
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 (09 February 2010)

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