Agave cantala

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Agave cantala
COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Een vrouw bundelt de geoogste bladeren van de cantala agave op onderneming Mento Toelakan in Solo Java TMnr 10011435.jpg

Agave cantala

Systematics
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily : Agave family (Agavoideae)
Genre : Agaves ( agave )
Subgenus : agave
Type : Agave cantala
Scientific name
Agave cantala
( Haw. ) Roxb. ex Salm-Dyck

Agave cantala is a plant from the genus of the Agave ( agave ). The epithet of the species is possibly derived from an Asian common name for the plants.

description

Agave cantala grows with stems that are 30 to 60 centimeters high and forms loose, tall and slender rosettes with a diameter of 2 to 2.5 meters that form runners . The thin, often bent back leaves are linear. They are keeled rounded towards the base and long pointed towards the tip of the leaf. The light or dark green leaves are 150 to 200 centimeters long and 7 to 9 centimeters wide. They are rough on the underside of the leaf blade, but smooth on the top. The leaf margin is straight. At a distance of mostly 2 to 3 centimeters there are brown, forward curved marginal teeth, which become fewer or completely missing towards the tip and of which the larger are 3 to 4 millimeters long. The end thorn is only 0.5 to 1.5 centimeters long.

The 6 to 8 meter high panicle inflorescence has a slender stem. Its approximately 20 loose partial inflorescences are located in the upper half of the inflorescence and sometimes have bulbils . The slender individual flowers are 70 to 85 millimeters long. Your tepals are greenish, purple or reddish tinged. They have almost identical tips 25 to 28 millimeters in length. The flower tube is 14 to 17 millimeters long. There are six long, spreading stamens. The ovary is subordinate.

The number of chromosomes is 2n = 90.

Systematics and distribution

Agave cantala is not known from nature. It is said to come from Mexico, from where it is said to have been transported to Southeast Asia .

The first name without description as Agave cantala was published in 1814 by William Roxburgh . The first description of Basionyms then took place in 1819 under the name Furcraea cantala by Adrian Hardy Haworth in Supplementum plantarum succulentarum 42. The return wording to Agave cantala then in 1829 was carried out by Joseph zu Salm-Dyck Reifferscheidt- in Index plantarum succulentarum in Horto Dyckensi cultarum , S 3.

A distinction is made between the following varieties :

  • Agave cantala var. Cantala
  • Agave cantala var. Acuispina (Trel.) Gentry

use

Agave cantala is cultivated worldwide, but especially in Southeast Asia. Maguey or cantala fibers are obtained from the leaves; these are very similar to sisal fibers .

proof

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Birkhäuser 2004, ISBN 3-540-00489-0 , p. 40
  2. ↑ H. Brücher: Tropical useful plants. Springer, 1977, 2014, ISBN 978-3-662-13238-8 (reprint), p. 218.
  3. ^ NIIR Board of Consultants & Engineers: Natural Fibers Handbook with Cultivation & Uses. ISBN 81-86623-98-1 , NIIR, 2005, p. 314.
  4. ^ William Roxburgh: Hortus Bengalensis, or a Catalog of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta . 1814, p. 25 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Urs Eggli (Ed.): Succulents Lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp.  19-20 .