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Cordyline
Sign in to saveCordyline is a genus of about 24 species of woody monocotyledonous flowering plants in family Asparagaceae, subfamily Lomandroideae. The subfamily has previously been treated as a separate family Laxmanniaceae, or Lomandraceae. Other authors have placed the genus in the Agavaceae (now Agavoideae). Cordyline is native to the western Pacific Ocean region, from New Zealand, eastern Australia, southeastern Asia and Polynesia, with one species found in southeastern South America.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderAsparagales
- FamilyAsparagaceae
General: Members of Cordyline can be recognised by their smaller
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 490
- With media
- 423
- Family
- Asparagaceae
- Collections
- DBG, DAV, IGL-UNAM, NY, UCR, MICH
- Recorded in
- United States, Mexico, Federated States Of Micronesia, Papua New Guinea, France, Indonesia, Bolivia, Philippines
Research
58 papers- Ethnobotany, Phytochemistry, and Biological Activities of the Genus Cordyline.Biomolecules · 2023
- Molecular characterization of Cordyline virus 1 isolates infecting yam (Dioscorea spp).Archives of virology · 2022
- Micropropagation of Cordyline terminalis.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2013
- Antibacterial 5α-Spirostane Saponins from the Fruit of Cordyline manners-suttoniae.Journal of natural products · 2019
- Extraction of polygenetic natural dyes from Cordyline fruticosa & Mussaenda erythrophylla for textile substrates.Natural product research · 2022
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Species
- Formerly placed here
- Cultivation and uses
- References
Cordyline is a genus of about 24 species of woody monocotyledonous flowering plants in family Asparagaceae, subfamily Lomandroideae. The subfamily has previously been treated as a separate family Laxmanniaceae, or Lomandraceae. Other authors have placed the genus in the Agavaceae (now Agavoideae). Cordyline is native to the western Pacific Ocean region, from New Zealand, eastern Australia, southeastern Asia and Polynesia, with one species found in southeastern South America.
The name Cordyline comes from the Greek word , meaning "club," a reference to the enlarged underground stems or rhizomes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cordyline” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.