Cordyline stricta
| Narrow-leaved Palm Lily | |
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| Cordyline stricta at West Pennant Hills, Australia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Asparagales |
| Family: | Asparagaceae |
| Subfamily: | Lomandroideae |
| Genus: | Cordyline |
| Species: | C. stricta
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| Binomial name | |
| Cordyline stricta | |
| Synonyms[2][3][4] | |
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Dracaena stricta Sims (basionym) | |
Cordyline stricta, known as the Narrow-leaved Palm Lily[5] or Slender Palm Lily,[6] is an evergreen Australian plant. A shrub to 5 metres tall found in wet sclerophyll forest and rainforest, usually on the coastal lowlands. From near Bilpin, New South Wales further north to Queensland.[5] C. stricta has become naturalised in Victoria.[7]
Description
Leaves are long and thin, 30 to 50 cm long, 1 to 2 cm wide. Mauve flowers form on panicles, 20 to 40 cm long. The flowering stem is 15 to 30 cm long. Fruit are purple to black, 10 to 15 mm in diameter. This is the only Australian species with black fruit.[5]
Uses
Gardening
Cordyline stricta is planted in gardens for its ornamental value.
Ecological
Cordyline stricta is a host plant for Yellow-streaked Swift caterpillars.[6]
References
- ^ This plant, as treated by the Austrian botanist Stephan Endlicher as Cordyline stricta, was published in Annalen des Wiener Museums der Naturgeschichte, 1: 162. 1836. "Name - Cordyline stricta (Sims) Endl". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 15 June, 2011.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ Cordyline stricta was first described and published by botanist John Sims under the name Dracaena stricta, its basionym, in Botanical Magazine, 52: t. 2575. 1825. "Name - Dracaena stricta Sims". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 15 June, 2011.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ Charlwoodia stricta was published in Flora Australasica, t. 18. 1827. "Name - Charlwoodia stricta (Sims) Sweet". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 15 June, 2011.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ Terminalis stricta was published by the German botanist Otto Kuntze in Revisio Generum Plantarum, 2: 716. 1891. "Name - Terminalis stricta (Sims) Kuntze". Tropicos. Saint Louis, Missouri: Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved 15 June, 2011.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ a b c G. J. Harden (1993). "Cordyline stricta Sims (Endl.)". PlantNET - NSW Flora Online. Retrieved 15 June, 2011.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=(help) - ^ a b Don Herbison-Evans & Stella Crossley (6 July, 2009). "Sabera dobboe (Plotz, 1885)". Coffs Harbour Butterfly House website. Bonville, NSW, Australia. Retrieved 15 June, 2011.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|accessdate=and|date=(help) - ^ GRIN (16 February, 1996). "Cordyline stricta information from NPGS/GRIN". Taxonomy for Plants. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Retrieved 15 June, 2011.
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