Agave apedicellata

Agave apedicellata
Systematics
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily :	Agave family (Agavoideae)
Genre :	Agaves ( agave )
Subgenus :	Manfreda
Type :	Agave apedicellata
Scientific name
	Agave apedicellata
	Thiede & Eggli

Agave apedicellata is a species of agave ( Agave ) in the subfamily of the agave family (Agavoideae). The specific epithet apedicellata is derived from the Greek prefix a- for 'without' and the Latin word pedicellatus for 'stalked' and refers to the sessile flowers of the species.

description

Agave apedicellata grows slender with linear, narrow, blunt leaves 2 to 5 millimeters wide.

The "eared" almost bare inflorescence is two to three times as long as the leaves. The broad ovoid bracts are pointed or tapered short. The sitting single flowers , usually arranged in pairs, are up to 54 millimeters long. The tepals the flowers are white. Your flower tube is narrow. The stigma does not protrude from the flower.

Nothing is known about the fruits and seeds .

Systematics and distribution

Agave apedicellata is common in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí at altitudes of 2450 meters.

The first description as Bravoa sessiliflora by William Botting Hemsley was published in 1880. Joachim Thiede and Urs Eggli placed the species in the genus Agave in 1999 . They had to choose a new name because the species Agave sessiliflora Hemsl was already there . (1880) existed. The species belongs to the subgenus Manfreda and is assigned to the Polianthes group there. A nomenclatory synonym is Polianthes sessiliflora (Hemsl.) Rose (1903) .

Agave apedicellata is not well known. It was collected in 1878 by Charles Christopher Parry and Edward Palmer (1831-1911) and is only known from this collection so far.

proof

literature

Joachim Thiede: Agave apedicellata . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 12 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 12.
^ William Botting Hemsley: Diagnoses plantarum novarum vel minus cognitarum Mexicanarum et Centrali-Americanarum . Part 3, Taylor and Francis, London 1880, p. 54.
↑ Joachim Thiede, Urs Eggli: Inclusion of Manfreda Salisbury, Polianthes Linné and Prochnyanthes S. Watson in Agave Linné (Agavaceae) . In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 50, Number 5, 1999, pp. 109-113 (online) .
^ William Botting Hemsley: Diagnoses plantarum novarum vel minus cognitarum Mexicanarum et Centrali-Americanarum . Part 3, Taylor and Francis, London 1880, p. 55.
^ Joseph Nelson Rose: Studies of Mexican and Central American Plants - No. 3 . In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . Volume 8, Part 1, 1903, p. 10. (online) .

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 12.

[2] William Botting Hemsley: Diagnoses plantarum novarum vel minus cognitarum Mexicanarum et Centrali-Americanarum . Part 3, Taylor and Francis, London 1880, p. 54.

[3] Joachim Thiede, Urs Eggli: Inclusion of Manfreda Salisbury, Polianthes Linné and Prochnyanthes S. Watson in Agave Linné (Agavaceae) . In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 50, Number 5, 1999, pp. 109-113 (online) .

[4] William Botting Hemsley: Diagnoses plantarum novarum vel minus cognitarum Mexicanarum et Centrali-Americanarum . Part 3, Taylor and Francis, London 1880, p. 55.

[5] Joseph Nelson Rose: Studies of Mexican and Central American Plants - No. 3 . In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . Volume 8, Part 1, 1903, p. 10. (online) .