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Dracaena masoniana (Chahin.) Byng & Christenh.

Asparagaceae · Zaïre

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Summary

Dracaena masoniana, synonym Sansevieria masoniana, is a species of Dracaena native to Africa and originally collected in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was initially known in cultivation under the cultivar name 'Mason Congo'. Commonly grown as a houseplant for its striking foliage, it can survive in bright filtered light or shade and with infrequent watering. Often grown as a single large, stiff leaf in pots, the plant's other common names include "whale fin" or "shark's fin".

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Dracaena masoniana", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeZaïre · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“rhizomatous geophyte” · “seasonally dry tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on the one georeferenced record inside the native range, openly licensed and shown on the map. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species.

Photographs

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Photographs: Mathew Rees, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; Mokkie, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (5).

Other Dracaena 78 in the reference

Dracaena acaulis Dracaena acaulis Asparagaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, DracaenaworldwideDracaena aethiopica Dracaena aethiopica Asparagaceae Photo: CC BY, Matthew FainmanDracaena ajgal Dracaena ajgal Asparagaceae Photo: CC BY, bogsuckersDracaena aletriformis Dracaena aletriformis Large-leaved Dragon Tree Photo: CC BY-SA, alanbedfordshawDracaena angolensis Dracaena angolensis Asparagaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, kathi hellerDracaena angustifolia Dracaena angustifolia Suji Photo: CC BY, Cheng-Te HsuDracaena arborea Dracaena arborea Tree dracaena Photo: CC BY, Lucy Keith-DiagneDracaena arborescens Dracaena arborescens Asparagaceae Photo: CC BY, Peter A. MansfeldDracaena aubryana Dracaena aubryana Asparagaceae Photo: CC BY, Kevin FaccendaDracaena aubrytiana Dracaena aubrytiana Asparagaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, DracaenaworldwideDracaena bacularis Dracaena bacularis Asparagaceae Photo: CC BY, Peter A. MansfeldDracaena bagamoyensis Dracaena bagamoyensis Asparagaceae Photo: CC0, Martin Tlustos all 79 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Sansevieria masoniana. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Asparagaceae
Described by
(Chahin.) Byng & Christenh.
Native to
Zaïre
Wild records
1 in range · 1 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (2 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 1 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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