Cordyline australis (G.Forst.) Endl.
First published in Prodr. Fl. Norfolk.: 29 (1833)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is New Zealand. It is a tree and grows primarily in the subtropical biome. It is used as a medicine, has environmental uses and for food.
Distribution
Native to:
New Zealand North, New Zealand South
Introduced into:
Great Britain, Tasmania
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Charlwoodia australis (G.Forst.) G.Don in J.C.Loudon, Hort. Brit.: 130 (1830)
- Dracaena australis G.Forst. in Fl. Ins. Austr.: 24 (1786)
- Dracaenopsis australis (G.Forst.) Planch. in Fl. Serres Jard. Eur. 6: 110 (1850)
- Terminalis australis (G.Forst.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 716 (1891)
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Cordyline australis var. atropurpurea (B.S.Williams) Wiegand in L.H.Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 2: 843 (1914)
- Cordyline australis var. aurea-striata Wiegand in L.H.Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 2: 843 (1914)
- Cordyline australis var. lineata (B.S.Williams) Wiegand in L.H.Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 2: 843 (1914)
- Cordyline australis var. veitchii (B.S.Williams) Wiegand in L.H.Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 2: 843 (1914)
- Cordyline calocoma (H.Wendl.) Baker in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 14: 542 (1875)
- Cordyline calocoma f. lentiginosa (Linden & André) Voss in Vilm. Blumengärtn. ed. 3. 1: 1061 (1895)
- Cordyline calocoma f. lineata (B.S.Williams) Voss in Vilm. Blumengärtn. ed. 3. 1: 1061 (1895)
- Cordyline calocoma f. nutans (H.Jaeger) Voss in Vilm. Blumengärtn. ed. 3. 1: 1061 (1895)
- Cordyline calocoma f. veitchii (B.S.Williams) Voss in Vilm. Blumengärtn. ed. 3. 1: 1061 (1895)
- Cordyline forsteri F.Muell. in Select Pl.: 58 (1872)
- Cordyline indivisa Regel in Gartenflora 1859: 331 (1859), nom. illeg.
- Cordyline kirkii F.Haage & E.Schmidt in Haupt-Verz. Samen 1875: 4 (1875)
- Cordyline lentiginosa (Rob.) Linden & André in Ill. Hort. 17: t. 35 (1870)
- Cordyline lineata K.Koch in Wochenschr. Vereines Beförd. Gartenbaues Königl. Preuss. Staaten 1: 6 (1860)
- Cordyline lineata var. doucetii É.Morren in Belgique Hort. 24: 130 (1874)
- Cordyline lineata var. purpurascens Rodigas in Ill. Hort. 40: 122 (1893)
- Cordyline nutans (H.Jaeger) K.Koch in Wochenschr. Vereines Beförd. Gartenbaues Königl. Preuss. Staaten 13: 155 (1870)
- Cordyline sturmii Colenso in Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 15: 331 (1883)
- Cordyline superbiens K.Koch in Wochenschr. Gärtnerei Pflanzenk. 2: 381 (1859)
- Cordyline veitchii Regel in Gartenflora 20: 149 (1871), not validly publ.
- Dracaena australis lineata W.Bull in Nursery Cat. (William Bull) 199: 75 (1884)
- Dracaena chemnitzii Neubert in Deutsch. Mag. Garten- Blumenk. 1871: 277 (1871)
- Dracaena doucetii (É.Morren) Pynaert in Nursery Cat. (Éd. Pynaert - Van Geert) 1888(Suppl.): 17 (1888)
- Dracaena indivisa B.S.Williams in Choice Stove Orn.-Leav. Pl.: 190 (1870), nom. illeg.
- Dracaena indivisa var. atropurpurea B.S.Williams in Choice Stove Orn.-Leav. Pl.: 191 (1870)
- Dracaena indivisa var. lineata B.S.Williams in Choice Stove Orn.-Leav. Pl.: 191 (1870)
- Dracaena indivisa var. veitchii B.S.Williams in Choice Stove Orn.-Leav. Pl.: 191 (1870)
- Dracaena lentiginosa Rob. in Gard. Chron. 1867: 461 (1867)
- Dracaena lineata (K.Koch) Neubert in Deutsch. Mag. Garten- Blumenk. 1870: 177 (1870)
- Dracaena nutans H.Jaeger in Gartenflora 6: 242 (1857)
- Dracaena parrei Lorgus in Möller's Deutsche Gärtn.-Zeitung 20: 442 (1905)
- Dracaena terminalis var. stricta Rothsch. in Pl. Feuill. Col., n.s., 2: 15 (1867)
- Dracaenopsis calocoma H.Wendl. in Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 17: 277 (1859)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Albano, P.-O. (2003). La Conaissance des Plantes Exotiques: 1-324. Édisud, Aix-en-Provence.
- Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne.
- Healey, A.J. & Edgar, E. (1980). Flora of New Zealand 3: 1-220. R.E.Owen, Government Printer, Wellington.
- Parslow, R. & Bennallick, I. (2017). The new flora of the Isles of Scilly: 1-539. Parslow Press.
- de Salas, MF, Baker, ML (2022). A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 1-161. Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart. https://flora.tmag.tas.gov.au/resources/census/.
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Parslow, R. & Bennallick, I. (2017). The new flora of the Isles of Scilly: 1-539. Parslow Press.
- de Salas, MF, Baker, ML (2022). A Census of the Vascular Plants of Tasmania, including Macquarie Island: 1-161. Tasmanian Herbarium, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart. https://flora.tmag.tas.gov.au/resources/census/.
Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia
- Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
- Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
- GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
- GRIN (2021). Germplasm Resources Information Network from the United States Department of Agriculture. https://www.ars-grin.gov/
- Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
- RBG, Kew (2021). Kew Economic Botany Collection. https://ecbot.science.kew.org/
- Willis, K.J. (ed.) (2017). State of the World’s Plants 2017. Report. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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5450.000 | No |
Sources
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Colombian resources for Plants made Accessible
- ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Living Collection Database
- Common Names from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Living Collection https://www.kew.org/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images
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Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0