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Dracaena angustifolia

Rautī (AT)

Narrow-leaf Dracaena

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General Information

COMMON NAMES: Narrow-leaf Dracaena, Narrow-leaf Pleomele

TRADITIONAL NAMES: Rautī (AT), Lautī (PK)

GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION: NATIVE India - Australia

COOK ISLANDS STATUS: Introduced - Recent, Not naturalised; Land, lowlands, gardens

SIGNIFICANCE LIST: Ornamental leaves

KEY FEATURES: Slender shrub, to 5m, with few ascending branches and terminal clusters of long slender leaves. LEAVES terminal clusters, spirally arranged, long, slender and tappering to a sharp tip, to XXxXXcm, uniform green ('Honoriae' has narrow cream margins). FLOWERS on spike 25cm, in groups of 4 along the spike; each with 1cm stalk, XXXXXXX. FRUIT round, to 2cmØ, ripen orange; flesh thin orange; seed one, large (12mmØ), translucent cream.

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Cook Islands Distribution

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Southern Group: Present Makatea: Present
RR	MG	AT	MK	MT	AK	PL	TK	MN
+++	++++	+++	P			P		-

Northern Group:
TN	MH	RK	PK	NS	SW
-	-	-	+++	-	-

Key to Symbols

blank	no data
-	absent	L	localised
X	extinct 'naturally'	W	widespread
XQi	quarantine intercepted	R	recent
XQe	eradicated	?	query preceding category
P	present	T?	taxonomic query
S	seasonal	nn	present, said to have no name
O	occasional	?1	present, name not investigated
++++	very common	?2	presence not verified, no name recorded
+++	common	N/A	absent, name not expected
++	uncommon
+	rare
Cook Islands islands: RR =Rarotonga, MG = Mangaia, AT =‘Ātiu, MK=Ma‘uke, MT=Miti‘āro, AK=Aitutaki, PL=Palmerston, PN=Penrhyn, MN=Manuae, TK=Takūtea, TN=Tongareva (TS=Tongaleva Spoken, TW=Tongareva Written, they say "el" but write "r"), MH=Manihiki, RK=Rakahanga, PK=Pukapuka, NS=Nassau, SW=Suwarrow. After a Polynesian name: ^=orthography query. Countries and other: FIJ=Fiji, WT=Wallis & Futuna, SAM=Samoa, TON=Tonga, NIU=Niue, CK=Cook Islands, CKM=Cook Islands Māori, FP=French Polynesia, AUS=Australs, SOC=Societies, TAH=Tahiti, TUA=Tuamotus, MQS=Marquesas, MNG=Mangareva, PIT=Pitcain group, EAS=Easter Island, HAW=Hawai‘i, NZ=New Zealand, NZM=New Zealand Māori

Scientific Taxonomy

Dracaena angustifolia Roxburgh
SYNONYMS: Dracaena angustifolia 'Honoriae'; Dracaena angustifolia honoriae; Pleomele angustifolia; Pleomele angustifolia 'Honoriae'

TAXONOMY: PLANTAE; ANTHOPHYTA (=Angiospermae); LILIOPSIDA (=Monocotyledones); LILIIDAE; Liliales; DRACAENACEAE. COMMENT: Formerly AGAVACEAE

Vouchers & References

Vouchers:
Pukapuka: fieldspecimen, 2/2004, G.McCormack with ID as Dracaena angustifolia.

References:
p.206 Neal - In Gardens of Hawaii
p.582 Tropica

Data Update History (information):
zTX, zB02, zM02, zD02

Web Resources

Citation Information

McCormack, Gerald (2007) Cook Islands Biodiversity Database, Version 2007.2. Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust, Rarotonga. Online at http://cookislands.bishopmuseum.org.
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