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Dracaena fragrans

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Name

Identification
Dracaena butayei De Wild. [family LILIACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Dracaena fragrans (L.) Ker Gawl. [family LILIACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Bos J.J., 1990
Related name
  • Dracaena fragrans
  • Dracaena ugandensis
  • Dracaena smithii
  • Dracaena butayei

Flora

Entry for Dracaena smithii Bak. ex Hook. f. [family DRACAENACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 3, Part 1,
Names
Dracaena smithii Bak. ex Hook. f. [family DRACAENACEAE], in Bot. Mag. t. 6169 (1875); F.T.A. 7: 440; Morton, W. Aft. Lilies & Orch. fig. 21; Aké Assi, Contrib. 2: 27 [235].
Pleomele smithii (Bak. ex Hook. f.) N. E. Br. [family DRACAENACEAE], (1914)
Dracaena fragrans [family DRACAENACEAE], of ChevBot646, partly (Guinspecs.), not of (Linn.) Ker-Gawl.
Information
A shrub used for hedges or developing into a tree up to 30 ft. high, branched at the base and above, bearing near the top a large crown of leaves several feet long; inflorescence a panicle about 2 ft. long, arising amongst the leaves, flowers yellowish green or white tinged red, opening at night, very fragrant; in drier forest.
Habitat
; in drier forest.
Distribution
Guin.: Labé Chev. 12391! Mamou to Kindia Chev. 13587. Longuery (Dec.) Caille in Hb. Chev. 14784!S. L.: Bathurst (Jan.) Dalz. 8254! York (cult., Jan.) Deighton 4586! Freetown (cult.) Deighton 2452!Ghana: Ankaful, Cape Coast (Feb.) Hall 1826! Tano-Ofin F.R. (Feb.) Lyon. FH 2873! Adamsu (Dec.) Vigne FH 3500!Togo Rep.: Kersting A366
Notes
[Another species used as a hedge plant in Sierra Leone has shorter leaves than either D. smithii or D. arborea and it may be D. fragrans (q.v.). It has an unbranched weak trunk up to 15 ft. high and, according to notes with Deighton 4616, it has not been seen to flower.]

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