Dracaena halapepe

Taxonavigation

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

Familia: Asparagaceae
Subfamilia: Nolinoideae
Tribus: Dracaeneae
Genus: Dracaena
Species: Dracaena halapepe

Name

Dracaena halapepe (H.St.John) Jankalski, (2008)
Note: St. John aberrantly published the epithet as halaapepe based on the incorrect vernacular “hala-a-pepe”; spelling had been corrected to halapepe under ICBN 60.1 (Wagner et al. 1990).

Synonyms

Basionym
- Pleomele halapepe H.St.John, Pacific Sci. 39: 180 (1985).
Homotypic
- Chrysodracon halapepe (H.St.John) P.L.Lu & Morden, Syst. Bot. 39: 101 (2014).

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Continental: Pacific Hawaiian Is. (Oahu) References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2^nd Edition

References

Jankalski, S., 2008. Sansevieria 18: 21
St.John, H. 1947. Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University 165: 39.[1]
Lu, P.L. & Morden, C.W. 2014. Phylogenetic relationships among Dracenoid genera (Asparagaceae: Nolinoideae) inferred from chloroplast DNA loci. Systematic Botany 39: 90–104. DOI: 10.1600/036364414X678035 PDF from Research Gate Reference page.
Takawira-Nyenya, R., Mucina, L, Cardinal-McTeague, W.M. & Thiele, K.R. 2018. Sansevieria (Asparagaceae, Nolinoideae) is a herbaceous clade within Dracaena: inference from non-coding plastid and nuclear DNA sequence data. Phytotaxa 376(6): 254–276. DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.376.6.2 Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Dracaena halapepe in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Mar. 22. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Dracaena halapepe. Published online. Accessed: Mar. 22 2019.
The Plant List 2013. Dracaena halapepe in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Jan. 26.
Tropicos.org 2019. Dracaena halaapepe. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 26 Jan. 2019.
Wagner, W.L., Herbst, D.R. & Sohmer, S.H. 1990. Manual of the flowering plants of Hawai‘i. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press and Bishop Museum Press. ISBN-10: 0824821661.