Dracaena aubryanaBrongn. ex É.Morren

Lance Dracaena

WFO wfo-0000765673 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Dracaena aubryana, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. a Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-19 / obs. 199039022
Dracaena aubryana, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. b Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199039036
Dracaena aubryana, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. c Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199039045
Dracaena aubryana, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. d Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 199039055
Dracaena aubryana, photographed by Greg III Espera
fig. e Greg III Espera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 31039941

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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Dracaena aubryana is native: Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda, Zambia AngolaCameroonCentral African RepublicCongoDR CongoEquatorial GuineaGabonGuineaGulf of Guinea Is.Ivory CoastLiberiaNigeriaSierra LeoneTogoUgandaZambia
Native distribution of Dracaena aubryana, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Angola ANG AFRICA
Cameroon CMN
Central African Republic CAF
Congo CON
DR Congo ZAI
Equatorial Guinea EQG
Gabon GAB
Guinea GUI
Gulf of Guinea Is. GGI
Ivory Coast IVO
Liberia LBR
Nigeria NGA
Sierra Leone SIE
Togo TOG
Uganda UGA
Zambia ZAM

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 11 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Dracaena humilis Baker
  • Dracaena kindtiana De Wild.
  • Dracaena monostachya Baker
  • Dracaena mooreana hort. ex Baker
  • Dracaena thalioides Makoy ex Regel
  • Draco humilis (Baker) Kuntze
  • Draco thaliodes (Jacob-Makoy ex Regel) Kuntze
  • Pleomele humilis (Baker) N.E.Br.
  • Pleomele kindtiana (De Wild.) N.E.Br.
  • Pleomele monostachya (Baker) N.E.Br.
  • Pleomele thalioides (Jacob-Makoy ex Regel) N.E.Br.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.