Agave bahamana
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Agave bahamana is a plant from the genus of the Agave ( agave ).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Agave bahamana is a solitary, stemless rosette plant . Their dull gray, rather narrowly lanceolate, concave leaves are sometimes folded a little lengthwise. The leaf blade is 200 to 300 inches long and 15 inches wide. The leaf margin is almost straight. There are 3 to 5 millimeters long peripheral teeth on it, which are usually 0.5 to 1 centimeter apart. The triangular marginal teeth are straight or the longer ones are pressed-bent and hardly lens-shaped at their base. They are reduced below and above, sometimes to small green, wart-like protrusions. The brownish, graying, cloudy, slightly bent back, strongly conical, downward sloping end mandrel is smooth and 10 to 15 millimeters long. It is usually furrowed below its center with inward edges.
Inflorescences and flowers
The egg-shaped, "panicle" inflorescence is up to about 10 meters long. The partial inflorescences are on slightly rising branches in the upper third of the inflorescence. The 50 to 60 millimeter long flowers are on approximately 10 millimeter long peduncles . Their tepals are golden yellow. They are about 15 millimeters long and 4 millimeters wide. Their tips are 15 millimeters long. The conical flower tube has a length of about 7 millimeters. The elongated spindle-shaped ovary is 30 to 35 millimeters long.
fruit
The elongated fruits are 50 millimeters long and 25 millimeters wide. They are short-stalked and beaked.
Systematics and distribution
Agave bahamana is on the Bahamas belonging Berry Islands spread. It grows on open, rocky plains and ribs, as well as in open groves and pine formations.
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. 15 .
Individual evidence
- ^ William Trelease: Agave in the West Indies . In: Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . Volume 11, 1913, p. 40, plates 84-86 ( online ).