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Dracaena kindtiana

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Identification
Dracaena kindtiana De Wild. [family DRACAENACEAE ]
Related name
  • Dracaena kindtiana

Flora

Entry for Dracaena aubryana E.Morren [family DRACAENACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2007) Author: Geoffrey Mwachala & Paul Mbugua
Names
Dracaena aubryana E.Morren [family DRACAENACEAE], Belg. Hort. 10: 348 (1860) & in Bull. Fed. Soc. 1860: 302 (1861); Bos, Dracaena in W Afr.: 29, t. 4, photo. 10 (1984). Type: cultivated in Hort. Paris, 1859, Wentzel in herb. Martius (BR, lecto., chosen by Bos, 1984)
Dracaena thalioides Regel [family DRACAENACEAE], Gartenflora 20: 147 (1871); Baker in F.T.A. 7: 445 (1898) pro parte; F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 3 (1): 156 (1968). Type: Belg. Hort. 10: t. 24 (1860), iconotype
Dracaena humilis Baker [family DRACAENACEAE], in J. Bot. 12: 166 (1874) & in J.L.S. 14: 534 (1875) & in F.T.A. 7: 444 (1898); F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 3 (1): 156 (1968). Type: Sierra Leone, Bagroo R., Mann 898 (K!, holo., A, P, iso.)
Dracaena kindtiana De Wild. [family DRACAENACEAE], in Ann. Mus. Congo ser. 5, 2: 119, t. 65, 66 (1907). Type: t. 65 in Ann. Mus. Congo ser. 5, 2 (1907), iconotype
Pleomele thalioides (Regel) N.E.Br. [family DRACAENACEAE], in K.B. 1914: 279 (1914). Type as for D. thalioides Regel
Information
Shrub 0.4–2.5 m high, usually unbranched; stem erect, often twisted spirally. Leaves distichous, often asymmetric, ovate to narrowly ovate, 10–40(–60) cm long, (1.5–)4–10(–15) cm wide, base rounded or cuneate, apex acute to cuspidate; petiole 5–30(–100) cm long. Inflorescence erect, spicate or paniculate, 9–70 cm long, unbranched or with a few branches near the base; flowers in groups of 1–3(–7) on distinct knobs with a single triangular bract to 10 mm long; pedicel 0–2 mm long, articulated below the middle. Flowers white or greenish-white, each lobe often with purple-red central band, (10–)15–30(–55) mm long, tube 5–10(–30) mm long, lobes 10–20 mm long, to 2.5 mm wide. Fruits shiny bright orange, deeply 1–3-lobed, lobes ovoid, 8–18 mm long, 4–9 mm in diameter; seeds dirty white, ovoid, 6–14 mm wide, 5–7 mm long.
Range
DISTR. U 2 West and Central Africa from Sierra Leone to Congo-Kinshasa and Angola
Altitude range
600–850 m
Distribution
UGANDA Toro District Bwamba, Feb. 1939, A.S. Thomas 2784! & May 1989, Katende 3690!
Notes
USES. None recorded. CONSERVATION Least concern

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