Sansevieria Has Been Reclassified As Dracaena. As part of the trend toward modern science and taxonomy in recent years, Dracaena has been reclassified as a Sansevieria. Originally, the genus Sanseviera (Snake Plant) was named after someone. Modern science has now established wherein the plant kingdom Sanseveria fits and has merged it into a different genus – Dracaena (Dracaena sanderiana).