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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Dracaena

Hierarchical position of the Genus Dracaena

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Liliopsida Brongn. pub. Enum. Pl. Mus. Paris: xv, 17. 12 Aug 1843. common name: Monocots       Subclassis  Liliidae J.H. Schaffn. pub. Ohio Naturalist 11: 413. Dec 1911.       SuperOrdo  Lilianae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 473. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Asteliales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 59. 1829.       Familia  Dracaenaceae Salisb. pub. Gen. Pl.: 73. Apr-Mai 1866.       Subfamilia  Dracaenoideae Link pub. Handbuch 1: 187. Jan-Aug 1829.       Tribus  Dracaeneae Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 60. 1829.       Genus  Dracaena Vand. ex L. pub. (1767) common name: dracaena

Named members of the Genus Dracaena

1	Species  aurea Mann syn. Pleomele aurea
2	Species  borealis Ait. syn. Clintonia borealis
3	Species  cinnabari Balf. f. common name: Socotra dragontree
4	Species  draco (L.) L. common name: dragontree
5	Species  fragrans (L.) Ker-Gawl. common name: fragrant dracaena
6	Species  hawaiiensis Fosberg syn. Pleomele fernaldii
7	Species  marginata Lam. common name: dragontree
8	Species  terminalis (L.) L. syn. Cordyline fruticosa

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.