Agave albescens
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Agave albescens is a plant from the genus of the Agave ( agave ).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Agave acicularis grows with single rosettes . Their light gray, cloudy, glaucoma and banded leaves are elongated, lanceolate. They are folded lengthwise and flat. The leaf blade is about 45 inches long and 15 inches wide. The leaf surface is slightly rough, the leaf margin almost straight. There are 2 to 3 millimeters long peripheral teeth on it, which are about 10 millimeters apart. They are usually straight or slightly curved, broadly triangular and tapering to a point. The blackish chestnut brown, dull, very short end spine is 1.5 centimeters long. It is conical, slightly bent back and slightly grooved below its center. Occasionally it is roughened except for its tip.
Inflorescences and flowers
The inflorescence is "paniculate" and reaches a length of 5 meters. The 30 to 35 millimeter long flowers are on slender flower stalks . Their tepals are golden yellow. The tips are 12 to 14 millimeters long. The open flower tube has a length of 5 to 6 millimeters. The spindle-shaped ovary is 15 millimeters long and shorter than the tepals.
Systematics and distribution
Agave albescens is common in the southwest of 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. 10 .
Individual evidence
- ^ William Trelease: Agave in the West Indies . In: Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . Volume 11, 1913, p. 44, plates 53 and 116 ( online ).