Dracaena angustifolia
A slender understorey shrub up to about 3 m tall, with narrow strap-shaped leaves 15–25 cm long and small yellowish flowers. It ranges from Bangladesh and Indochina through Malesia to New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and northern Australia. It is a lowland plant of monsoon forest and rainforest edges, and it takes warmth, shade and a moderate dry season well.
Where it grows wild
It grows in the shaded understorey of lowland tropical forest. In northern Australia this is mainly monsoon vine forest and riverine forest patches in savanna country, and in Malesia and New Guinea lowland rainforest and secondary forest. It roots in forest soil and leaf litter.
176 records give 2–800 m, median 91 m. It is essentially a lowland species.
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