Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Cordyline spectabilis
Asparagaceae Juss.
Cordyline spectabilis Kunth & C.D.Bouché , legitimate, scientific
Kunth, K.S. (1848), Species novae Horti Regii Botanici Berolinensis anno 1847 collectorum. Index Seminum in Horto Botanici Berolinensi: 11 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Australasia?"
  • Text: "Dracaena stricta Hort. Berol. olim. nec Sims."
Kunth, K.S. (1848), Plantarum species novae ex catalogis hortorum excerptae, I: Ad calcem cat. sem. horti berolinensis, anni 1847. Annales des Sciences Naturelles; Botanique ser. 3, 9: 310 BHL [secondary reference]
  • Text: "Dracaena stricta, Hort. Berol., olim. non Sims."
Pedley, L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1986), Cordyline. Flora of Australia 46: 85 [secondary reference]
  • Text: "The name is possibly a synonym of Cordyline congesta (Sweet) Steudel."
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (31 July 2018), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: A name of uncertain application, possibly referable to Cordyline congesta (see L.Pedley in A.S.George (ed.), Fl. Australia 46: 85 (1986)).