AusTraits

Dracaena angustifolia

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Family Asparagaceae

Taxonomy: Dracaena angustifolia (Medik.) Roxb.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Cordyline rumphii Hook. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Dracaena angustifolia var. honoriae F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pleomele angustifolia (Medik.) N.E.Br. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Sansevieria fruticosa Blume (taxonomic synonym)
  • Terminalis angustifolius Medik. (nomenclatural synonym)
Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Dracaena reflexa Lam. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (2), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (14), Brock_1993 (12), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (13), Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (4), NTH_2022 (3), NTH_2023 (10), Nano_2011 (2), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 26 traits from 77 records in 14 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response
flower morphology
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 12.75 mm (10-16 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 12.5 mm (10-15 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): berry (6) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NTH_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): fleshy (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): orange (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_length (numerical): 278.33 mm (150-450 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 26.17 mm (12-55 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): linear (2); oblanceolate (1) [sources: Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993]
  • leaf_arrangement (categorical): scattered (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): herb (1); shrub (3); tree (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (4) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; NTH_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2); woody_base (1) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): sprawling (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993]
  • flowering_time (categorical): nnnnnyyyyynn (1); nnyyyyyyyynn (1) [sources: Brock_1993; Cooper_2013]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): none (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]
seed morphology
  • seed_length (numerical): 10 mm (8-12 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 6.25 m (1-8 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
ABRS_2023914Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Cooper_20131013W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Brock_1993912J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
NTH_2023810D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Chen_201744Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
Gross_200544C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
Sjostrom_200644A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
NTH_202233D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
ABRS_198122B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Crowley_200722G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Nano_201122C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.