Dracaena nitens

Taxonavigation: Asparagales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Ordo: Asparagales

Name

Dracaena nitens (Welw.) ex Baker, Trans. Linn. Soc. London, Bot. 1: 252 (1878).

Homotypic
- Dracaena reflexa var. nitens (Welw. ex Baker) Baker in D.Oliver & auct. suc. (eds.), Fl. Trop. Afr. 7: 441 (1898).
- Pleomele nitens (Welw. ex Baker) N.E.Br., Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew 1914: 278 (1914).
Heterotypic
- Dracaena reflexa var. buchneri Engl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 32: 96 (1902).

Native distribution areas:
Continental: Africa Regional: West-Central Tropical Africa Central African Republic, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Zaire. Regional: South Tropical Africa Angola. References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

Baker, J.G. 1880. Report on the Liliaceae, Iridaceae, Hypoxidaceae and Haemodoraceae of Welwitsch’s Angolan Herbarium. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London ser. 2, 1(5): 245–275 (252!). BHL Reference page.

Damen, T.H.J., Van der Burg, W.J, Wiland-Szymańska, J. & Sosef, M.S.M. 2018. Taxonomic novelties in African Dracaena (Dracaenaceae). Blumea 63(1): 31–53. DOI: 10.3767/blumea.2018.63.01.05 . Reference page.

African Plants Database (version 3.4.0). Dracaena nitens. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 13.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Dracaena nitens in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 13. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Dracaena nitens. Published online. Accessed: Mar. 13 2019.

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