Agave acklinicola

Agave acklinicola
Systematics
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily :	Agave family (Agavoideae)
Genre :	Agaves ( agave )
Subgenus :	agave
Type :	Agave acklinicola
Scientific name
	Agave acklinicola
	Trel.

Agave acklinicola is a species ofthe agave genus ( agave ). The specific epithet acklinicola is derived from the Latin word -cola for 'inhabiting' and refers to the occurrence of the species on the Acklin Island.

description

Vegetative characteristics

Agave acklinicola grows with single rosettes . The cloudy, grayish, rather narrow, lanceolate leaves are concave and occasionally a little runny. Your leaf blade is up to 300 centimeters long and 15 centimeters wide. On the edge of the leaf there are 1 to 1.5 millimeter long teeth that are 5 to 10 millimeters apart. The straight or slightly curved marginal teeth are triangular and rather pointed. They often arise from a crooked green protrusion or have a lens-shaped base. The red-brown, shiny, downward-sloping end thorn turns gray. It is conical and slightly curved back. Its inwardly directed edges are guttural up to the middle or beyond. The end thorn is 2 to 2.5 inches long.

Generative characteristics

Nothing is known about the inflorescence , flowers , bulbils , fruits and seeds .

Systematics and distribution

Agave acklinicola is common in the Bahamas on the Acklin Island.

The first description by William Trelease was published in 1913.

proof

literature

Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 10 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 2.
^ William Trelease: Agave in the West Indies . In: Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . Volume 11, 1913, p. 41, plate 91, figure 2 ( online ).

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Herbarium evidence

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 2.

[2] William Trelease: Agave in the West Indies . In: Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . Volume 11, 1913, p. 41, plate 91, figure 2 ( online ).