Dracaena rockii

Taxonavigation

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

Dracaena rockii (H.St.John) Jankalski, 2008

Basionym
- Pleomele rockii H.St.John, Pacific Sci. 39: 187. (1985)
Heterotypic
- Pleomele hawaiiensis var. mauiensis O.Deg. & I.Deg. in O.Degener, Fl. Hawaiiensis 68: s.p. (1980)
- Pleomele auwahiensis H.St.John, Pacific Sci. 39: 175. (1985)
- Dracaena auwahiensis (H.St.John) Jankalski, Sansevieria 28: 24. (2012)
- Chrysodracon auwahiensis (H.St.John) P.L.Lu & Morden, Syst. Bot. 39: 101. (2014)

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

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 rockii in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Jan. 25. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Dracaena rockii. Published online. Accessed: Jan. 25 2019.
The Plant List 2013. Dracaena rockii in The Plant List Version 1.1. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Jan. 25.
Tropicos.org 2019. Dracaena rockii. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 25 Jan. 2019.

English: Hawaiian Dragon Tree (US)

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