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Genus composed of some 110 Afro-Asian species, plus one species in Central America. In North Africa it is represented 2 species, D. draco<\/strong>, of which a relict population remains in the rocky outcrops of the western Anti-Atlas (Morocco) and D. ombet<\/strong>, a threatened species found in the region of Gabal Elba, in the SE of Egypt. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","short_name":"Dracaena","name_html":"Dracaena<\/strong> L.","short_description":"","references":"Almeida, R.S. 2003. Sobre la presencia de Dracaena draco <\/em>(L.) L. en Gran Canaria (islas Canarias): aportaci\u00f3n corol\u00f3gica, estado actual y significaci\u00f3n biogeogr\u00e1fica. Bot. Macaron\u00e9sica,<\/em> 24: 17-38.\r\n\r\nBenabid, A. & Cuzin, F. 1997. Populations de dragonnier (Dracaena draco<\/em> L. subsp. ajgal<\/em> Benabid & Cuzin) au Maroc: valeurs taxonomique, biog\u00e9ographique et phytosociologique. Comptes rendus de l'Academie des Sciences. <\/em>Sciences de la Vie,<\/em> 320: 267-277.\r\n\r\nEl Azzouni, M. 2003. Conserving Dracaena ombet<\/em>, Egypt's Dragon Tree. Plant Talk<\/em> 34: 38-39.\r\n\r\nKamel, A., Ghazaly, U. M. & Kallmander, M.W. 2014. Conservation status of the endangered Nubian dragon tree Dracaena ombet<\/em> in Gebel Elba National Park, Egypt. Oryx,<\/em> 49(4): 704-709.\r\n\r\nKassas, M. 1956. The mist oasis of Erkwit, Sudan. Journal of Ecology,<\/em> 44(1): 180-194.\r\n\r\nMarrero, A., Almeida, R.S. & Gonz\u00e1lez-Mart\u00edn, M. 1998. A new species of the wild dragon tree, Dracaena <\/em>(Dracaenaceae) from Gran Canaria and its taxonomic and biogeographic implications. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society<\/em>, 128: 291-314.\r\n\r\nRobiansyah, I. & Hajar, A.S. 2017. Predicting Current and Future Distribution of Endangered Tree Dracaena ombet <\/em>Kotschy and Peyr. Under Climate Change. 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They are distributed unevenly almost throughout the entire Mediterranean area.\r\n\r\nIn the middle the other 3 species that grow in the region, with slightly woody stems, but hardly to be considered as shrubs or shrublets, they are:\r\n\r\nA. horridus<\/strong> L. (A. stipularis<\/em> Forssk.) Ara<\/em>. (Egypt): Aqoul gabal, shawk, halioun), with cladodes fasciculate by 2 or 3, very large (up to 5 cm), persistent, linear, rigid and sharp; and A.<\/strong> acutifolius <\/strong>L., with cladodes fasciculate by 4-12, small (3-6 mm), persistent, linear, semirigid and slightly prickly. Both species are distributed throughout the Mediterranean area, except for the steppes and cooler and wetter areas. In Libya A. horridus<\/em> grows throughout the northern Mediterranean strip, but A. acutifolius<\/em> is very rare (cited only in the vicinity of Khoms).\r\n\r\nA final species worthy of mention is A.<\/strong> verticillatus <\/strong>L., a perennial plant, with stems not too lignified, but reaching up to 2.5 m in length; erect or flexible branches; cladodes (20-60 \u00d7 0.5-1.2 mm), trigonous, and with papillae in the margins, grouped in whorls of (1)10-20(30); fruits 5.5 to 8 mm, black. Distributed in the eastern Mediterranean. In North Africa it is only found, and appears as adventitious, in NE Libya (Jebel Akhdar, reaching to the W to the Kuf River).\r\n\r\nIn principle none of these species are considered threatened. A. horridus<\/em> are not currently assessed at a global level in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species<\/em>, while A. acutifolius <\/em>and A. verticillatus<\/em> are considered at a global level as Least Concern (LC) (Rhodes & Maxted, 2016).","post_excerpt":"","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 09:02:08","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 09:02:08","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"asparagus-l-3","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2021-07-16 19:33:26","post_modified_gmt":"2021-07-16 19:33:26","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.northafricatrees.org\/genus\/asparagus-l-3\/","menu_order":0,"post_type":"genus","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","comments":false,"id":11786},"11792":{"short_name":"Dracaena","name_html":"Dracaena<\/strong> L.","short_description":"","references":"Almeida, R.S. 2003. Sobre la presencia de Dracaena draco <\/em>(L.) L. en Gran Canaria (islas Canarias): aportaci\u00f3n corol\u00f3gica, estado actual y significaci\u00f3n biogeogr\u00e1fica. Bot. Macaron\u00e9sica,<\/em> 24: 17-38.\r\n\r\nBenabid, A. & Cuzin, F. 1997. Populations de dragonnier (Dracaena draco<\/em> L. subsp. ajgal<\/em> Benabid & Cuzin) au Maroc: valeurs taxonomique, biog\u00e9ographique et phytosociologique. Comptes rendus de l'Academie des Sciences. <\/em>Sciences de la Vie,<\/em> 320: 267-277.\r\n\r\nEl Azzouni, M. 2003. Conserving Dracaena ombet<\/em>, Egypt's Dragon Tree. Plant Talk<\/em> 34: 38-39.\r\n\r\nKamel, A., Ghazaly, U. M. & Kallmander, M.W. 2014. Conservation status of the endangered Nubian dragon tree Dracaena ombet<\/em> in Gebel Elba National Park, Egypt. Oryx,<\/em> 49(4): 704-709.\r\n\r\nKassas, M. 1956. The mist oasis of Erkwit, Sudan. Journal of Ecology,<\/em> 44(1): 180-194.\r\n\r\nMarrero, A., Almeida, R.S. & Gonz\u00e1lez-Mart\u00edn, M. 1998. A new species of the wild dragon tree, Dracaena <\/em>(Dracaenaceae) from Gran Canaria and its taxonomic and biogeographic implications. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society<\/em>, 128: 291-314.\r\n\r\nRobiansyah, I. & Hajar, A.S. 2017. Predicting Current and Future Distribution of Endangered Tree Dracaena ombet <\/em>Kotschy and Peyr. Under Climate Change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>, India Section B: Biological Sciences,<\/em> 87(1): 225\u2013232.","custom_author":"B. Vald\u00e9s & J. Charco.","family":{"ID":"10758","post_author":"1","post_date":"2020-11-10 08:58:11","post_date_gmt":"2020-11-10 08:58:11","post_content":"Family composed of 128 genera and about 2,930 species of shrubs, lianas or herbs, distributed over almost the entire planet, lacking in South America. 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Branching very peculiar, since the tree has one straight trunk that does not begin to branch until the first flowering (which can occur in 10 to 15 years); or due to other circumstances, but always when having reached some degree of maturity, it only then loses its only vegetative terminal bud, and 2-6 buds will then result in the first branching. Cultivated specimens sometimes become really large without ever branching. Bark silver, bright in the stems of young trees, ashy-brown and fissured in old trunks; the branches are dotted with the scars left by falling leaves, scars that gradually disappear as the branches grow in diameter. In older trees often aerial roots hang from the branches. Leaves grouped in dense rosettes on the terminal end of each branch; closely linear-lanceolate (40-60 \u00d7 2-3 cm), sessile, coriaceous, glabrous, flexible, very acute, but not prickly, green-ashy in colour, reddish-orange at the base. Inflorescence branched in terminal or subterminal racemes. 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Genus composed of some 110 Afro-Asian species, plus one species in Central America. 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Genus composed of 7 species, widely distributed acroos the Northern Hermisphere. 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Here it coexists with other interesting species such as Davallia canariensis, Asplenium aethiopicum, Selaginella rupestris <\/em>and Aeonium korneliuslemsii.<\/em>","distribution":"Macaronesian region: grows in the Canary, Madeira and Cape Verde Islands; on the African continent its populations are situated in SW Morocco, in the western Anti-Atlas, in the rocky cliffs of the valley of the river Umarhuz (massifs of the jbel Imzi and the jbel Adad Medni).","observations":"D. draco<\/em> had been considered until 1996 endemic to the Macaronesian islands. However, in June of that year a population of dragos was discovered in the gorges of the Oumarhouz River (western Anti-Atlas) composed of hundreds, possibly thousands, of specimens growing in inaccessible crags: trees up to 15 m in height, of eminent native character. In 1997, the authors that discovered them used morphological analysis of these atlasic trees to separate the continental dragos from the island ones into subspecific level: D. draco<\/em> subsp. ajgal<\/em> Benabid & Cuzin. Just one year later, a new species was described in the Canary Islands: D. tamaranae<\/em> A. Marrero, R.S. Almeida & Gonz\u00e1lez-Mart\u00ednez. These authors made a detailed comparison of the dragos of North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula describing the existence of 2 Atlantic species. Atlantic drago (D. draco)<\/em> in Morocco, Cape Verde, Canary and Madeira Islands, and Gran Canaria dragon tree (D. tamaranae<\/em>), endemic to the Island of Gran Canaria.","conservation":"The drago formerly occupied large extensions of land in the lowlands of SW Morocco and in Macaronesian Islands. But nowadays it has been brought to near-extinction in the wild. In Morocco only a few hundred specimens survive in inaccessible outcrops. One of the most harmful uses of this species here has been its felling to make hives with the trunks after being hollowed. In the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species<\/em> it is listed at a global level as Vulnerable (VU) (Ba\u00f1ares et al.<\/em>, 1998).","genus":{"11792":{"short_name":"Dracaena","name_html":"Dracaena<\/strong> L.","short_description":"","references":"Almeida, R.S. 2003. Sobre la presencia de Dracaena draco <\/em>(L.) L. en Gran Canaria (islas Canarias): aportaci\u00f3n corol\u00f3gica, estado actual y significaci\u00f3n biogeogr\u00e1fica. Bot. Macaron\u00e9sica,<\/em> 24: 17-38.\r\n\r\nBenabid, A. & Cuzin, F. 1997. Populations de dragonnier (Dracaena draco<\/em> L. subsp. ajgal<\/em> Benabid & Cuzin) au Maroc: valeurs taxonomique, biog\u00e9ographique et phytosociologique. Comptes rendus de l'Academie des Sciences. <\/em>Sciences de la Vie,<\/em> 320: 267-277.\r\n\r\nEl Azzouni, M. 2003. Conserving Dracaena ombet<\/em>, Egypt's Dragon Tree. Plant Talk<\/em> 34: 38-39.\r\n\r\nKamel, A., Ghazaly, U. M. & Kallmander, M.W. 2014. Conservation status of the endangered Nubian dragon tree Dracaena ombet<\/em> in Gebel Elba National Park, Egypt. Oryx,<\/em> 49(4): 704-709.\r\n\r\nKassas, M. 1956. The mist oasis of Erkwit, Sudan. Journal of Ecology,<\/em> 44(1): 180-194.\r\n\r\nMarrero, A., Almeida, R.S. & Gonz\u00e1lez-Mart\u00edn, M. 1998. A new species of the wild dragon tree, Dracaena <\/em>(Dracaenaceae) from Gran Canaria and its taxonomic and biogeographic implications. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society<\/em>, 128: 291-314.\r\n\r\nRobiansyah, I. & Hajar, A.S. 2017. Predicting Current and Future Distribution of Endangered Tree Dracaena ombet <\/em>Kotschy and Peyr. Under Climate Change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>, India Section B: Biological Sciences,<\/em> 87(1): 225\u2013232.","custom_author":"B. Vald\u00e9s & J. 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Comptes rendus de l'Academie des Sciences. <\/em>Sciences de la Vie,<\/em> 320: 267-277.\r\n\r\nEl Azzouni, M. 2003. Conserving Dracaena ombet<\/em>, Egypt's Dragon Tree. Plant Talk<\/em> 34: 38-39.\r\n\r\nKamel, A., Ghazaly, U. M. & Kallmander, M.W. 2014. Conservation status of the endangered Nubian dragon tree Dracaena ombet<\/em> in Gebel Elba National Park, Egypt. Oryx,<\/em> 49(4): 704-709.\r\n\r\nKassas, M. 1956. The mist oasis of Erkwit, Sudan. Journal of Ecology,<\/em> 44(1): 180-194.\r\n\r\nMarrero, A., Almeida, R.S. & Gonz\u00e1lez-Mart\u00edn, M. 1998. A new species of the wild dragon tree, Dracaena <\/em>(Dracaenaceae) from Gran Canaria and its taxonomic and biogeographic implications. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society<\/em>, 128: 291-314.\r\n\r\nRobiansyah, I. & Hajar, A.S. 2017. Predicting Current and Future Distribution of Endangered Tree Dracaena ombet <\/em>Kotschy and Peyr. Under Climate Change. 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