Dracaena steudneri Engl.

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Dracaena steudneri

Picture: Bart Wursten
Leopard Rock Golf Course

Dracaena steudneri

Picture: Bart Wursten
National Botanic Gardens Harare

Dracaena steudneri

Picture: Bart Wursten
Path to staff compound, just outside Fence of Aberfoyle Country Lodge

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Status: Native
Description:
A single-, or multi-stemmed palm-like tree, up to 15m tall, with dense terminal rosettes of leaves
Type location:
Ethiopia
Notes:
Derivation of specific name: steudneri: after Dr. Hermann Steudner (1832-1863), German physician, botanist, explorer, and plant collector who worked in Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Habitat: Margins of evergreen forest
Altitude range: 700 - 2000 m
Flowering time:Aug
Worldwide distribution: DRC, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): N
Zambian distribution (Provinces): N
Growth form(s): Tree.
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Insects associated with this species: Artitropa erinnys nyasae (Larval foodplant)
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Literature:

Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 305.

Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 60. (Includes a picture).

Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Page 116.

Dowsett-Lemaire, F. (1989). The flora and phytogeography of the evergreen forests of Malawi. I: Afromontane and mid-altitude forests; Bull. Jard. Bot. Nat. Belg. 59(1/2) Page 20.

Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 232.

La Croix, I. (2010). Dracaenaceae Flora Zambesiaca 13(2) Pages 17 - 18.

Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 90.

Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 80.

White, F. (1962). Forest Flora of Northern Rhodesia Oxford Univ. Press. Page 16.

White, F., Dowsett-Lemaire, F. & Chapman, J.D. (2001). Evergreen forest flora of Malawi Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Page 101.

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Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Dracaena steudneri
Flora of Malawi: Dracaena steudneri
Flora of Mozambique: Dracaena steudneri
Flora of Zimbabwe: Dracaena steudneri
Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Dracaena steudneri

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Dracaena steudneri
African Plant Database: Dracaena steudneri
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Dracaena steudneri
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Dracaena steudneri
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JSTOR Plant Science: Dracaena steudneri
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Dracaena steudneri
Plants of the World Online: Dracaena steudneri
Tropicos: Dracaena steudneri
Wikipedia: Dracaena steudneri


Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Species information: Dracaena steudneri.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=114640, retrieved 29 March 2024

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