Pan India Bouquets

Dracaena angustifolia (Medik.) Roxb.

Family : Asparagaceae
(Agave Family)
Family (Hindi name) : RAJANIGANDHA FAMILY (रजनीगंधा फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : Asparagaceae
Synonym(s) : Cordyline fruticosa Göpp.; Cordyline rumphii Hook.; Dracaena angustifolia var. angustior (Ridl.) Jankalski; Dracaena angustifolia var. honoriae F.M.Bailey; Dracaena australasica (Ridl.) Jankalski; Dracaena ensiformis Wall. ex Voigt; Dracaena fruticosa Regel; Dracaena fruticosa (Blume) K.Koch; Dracaena menglaensis G.Z.Ye; Dracaena quitensis Baker; Draco angustifolia (Roxb.) Kuntze; Draco fruticosa (Blume) Kuntze; Pleomele angustifolia (Medik.) N.E.Br.; Pleomele angustifolia var. angustior Ridl.; Pleomele australasica Ridl.; Pleomele flexuosa (Blume) N.E.Br.; Pleomele reflexa var. angustifolia (Medik.) M.R.Almeida; Sansevieria flexuosa Blume; Sansevieria fruticosa Blume; Terminalis angustifolia Medik.; Pandanus inermis Blanco
Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Dracaena angustifolia (Medik.) Roxb.
Habit : Shrub
Habitat : This plant is found in the forests and thickets.
Key identification features : Dracaena angustifolia is a rhizomatous, perennial herbaceous plant, forming large climbing shrubs with few ascending branches or small Slender trees with weak pendulous twigs, and 1-3 m tall. The sessile linear leaves are born in dense rosettes, followed by yellow flowers in terminal racemes to spreading panicles and globose compressed 3-lobed berry. It is widely cultivated as a garden and indoor ornamental plant
Flower, Fruit : March-August
Distribution :
- Meghalaya : Meghalaya
Native : Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Hainan, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, New Guinea, Nicobar Is., Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Is., T
Exotic/Native : Native
Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Dracaena angustifolia . Downloaded on 7 December 2023.

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