Asparagus draco Linnaeus, Species Plantarum, ed. 2, 1: 451. 1762.

"Habitat in India orientali." RCN: 2473.

Basionym of: Dracaena draco (L.) L. (1767) .

Lectotype (Bos in Jarvis & al., Regnum Veg. 127: 43. 1993): [icon] “Draco” in Clusius, Rar. Pl. Hist. 1: 1. 1601 (see p. 119).

Current name: Dracaena draco (L.) L. ( Agavaceae / Dracaenaceae).

Note: Bos (in Misc. Pap. Landbouwhoogeschool 84-1: 16. 1984) and Ramón-Laca Menéndez de Luarca (in Anales Jard. Bot. Madrid 55: 422, f. 2. 1997) both reproduce the Clusius type figure.