Agave acicularis
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Agave acicularis is a species ofthe agave ( agave ) genus .
description
Vegetative characteristics
Agave acicularis grows with somewhat grayish, cloudy, lanceolate leaves that are about 100 centimeters long and 12 centimeters wide. The leaf margin is slightly concave. There are 2 to 3 millimeters long, chestnut brown marginal teeth on it, which are 10 to 15 millimeters apart. Below the middle of the leaf they are looser, larger and turned back, and sometimes have an outwardly curved tip. The gray-brown, slightly shiny, strongly needle-like, straight, downward- sloping terminal mandrel has a somewhat triangular furrow below the center and is 2.5 centimeters long.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence is "paniculate". The 40 to 45 millimeter long flowers are on stalks barely 5 millimeters long . Their tepals are yellow. The tips are 12 to 15 millimeters long. The open flower tube has a length of about 5 millimeters. The spindle-shaped ovary is 25 millimeters in length longer than the tepals.
fruit
The fruits become somewhat pear-shaped. They are slightly stalked or beaked.
Systematics and distribution
Agave acicularis is common in central Cuba .
The first description by William Trelease was published in 1913.
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literature
- Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 9-10 .
Individual evidence
- ^ William Trelease: Agave in the West Indies . In: Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . Volume 11, 1913, p. 34, plate 52 ( online ).
