Published December 31, 2007 | Version v1

Dracaena draco Linnaeus 1767

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Department of Botany, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, UK

Description

Asparagus draco Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 1: 451. 1762.

"Habitat in India orientali." RCN: 2473.

Basionym of: Dracaena draco (L.) L. (1767).

Lectotype (Bos in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 43. 1993): [icon] “Draco” in Clusius, Rar. Pl. Hist. 1: 1. 1601 (see p. 119).

Current name: Dracaena draco (L.) L. (Agavaceae / Dracaenaceae).

Note: Bos (in Misc. Pap. Landbouwhoogeschool 84-1: 16. 1984) and Ramón-Laca Menéndez de Luarca (in Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 55: 422, f. 2. 1997) both reproduce the Clusius type figure.

Notes

Published as part of Jarvis, Charlie, 2007, Chapter 7: Linnaean Plant Names and their Types (part A), pp. 252-342 in Order out of Chaos. Linnaean Plant Types and their Types, London :Linnaean Society of London in association with the Natural History Museum on page 325, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.291971

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Magnoliophyta
Order
Asparagales
Family
Agavaceae
Genus
Dracaena
Species
draco
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Dracaena draco Linnaeus, 1767 sec. Jarvis, 2007