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Dracaena singularis; photograph Peter A. Mansfeld, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BYPeter A. Mansfeld, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Dracaena singularis (N.E.Br.) Byng & Christenh.

Asparagaceae · Ethiopia, Somalia +2

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Dracaena singularis, photograph Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDracaena singularis, photograph Peter A. Mansfeld, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDracaena singularis, photograph Ton Rulkens from Mozambique, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDracaena singularis, photograph Ton Rulkens from Mozambique, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDracaena singularis, photograph Ton Rulkens from Mozambique, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia CommonsDracaena singularis, photograph Ton Rulkens from Mozambique, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 12 photographs ›

Summary

Dracaena singularis is a species of succulent plant in the genus Dracaena native to Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania. Initially mistakenly placed in the genus Boophane at first, by the 1980s the plant was reclassified into the genus Sanseviera, until that entire genus was merged with Dracaena. The species is named singularis because at its mature size, it has only a single leaf up to 1.8 metres (5.9 ft) in length, while in a juvenile state it displays small rosettes of several leaves.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 6 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 6 of the 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeEthiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania · 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).
Map marker-9.013, 39.133 · in the densest population, 5 records (83% of those in range)
Kew's description“rhizomatous geophyte” · “desert or dry shrubland” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 6 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 6 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 6 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Stan Shebs, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Peter A. Mansfeld, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Ton Rulkens from Mozambique, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (4).

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 Boophone fischeri; Sansevieria fischeri; Sansevieria singularis. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Asparagaceae
Described by
(N.E.Br.) Byng & Christenh.
Native to
Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya +1
Wild records
6 in range · 6 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
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-226 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
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 nothing to reportasked 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 4 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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