Dracaena malawiana
A sansevieria-type Dracaena described in 2012 as Sansevieria formosa from the Kapichira Falls area on the Shire River in southern Malawi, and renamed Dracaena malawiana in 2018 when Sansevieria was merged into Dracaena. Almost nothing about its wild ecology is published, so the care below is built from the climate of the lower Shire valley and from how related East African sansevierias grow.
Where it grows wild
Known from the Kapichira Falls area, where the Shire River drops from the Middle Shire into the hot Lower Shire valley. The surrounding vegetation is dry deciduous woodland and rocky bushland, the usual home of rhizomatous sansevierias, which grow in partial shade under shrubs or among rocks. No habitat notes for this species itself were found.
Not recorded for the species. The Kapichira Falls area lies low, roughly 100-300 m, in the Shire valley.
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