Agave capensis
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Agave capensis is a plant from the genus of the Agave ( agave ). An English common name is "Cabo San Lucas Agave".
description
Agave capensis grows solitary with a short trunk, forms large groups from the lower leaf axils with a stature height of 60 to 80 cm and a diameter of 80 to 120 cm. The narrow, soft, succulent, green to bluish, lanceolate, irregularly arranged leaves are 30 to 60 cm long and 4 to 7 cm wide. The wavy leaf margins are variably serrated from dark brown to gray. The dark brown end thorn is 1.5 to 3 cm long.
The paniculate inflorescence is 2.5 to 3.5 m high. The numerous yellow flowers are 50 to 65 mm long and appear in the middle to the tips on irregularly arranged branches. The flower tube is 8 to 14 mm long.
The egg-shaped brown three-chambered capsule fruits are 25 to 35 mm long. and 15 to 17 mm wide.
Systematics and distribution
Agave capensis grows in Baja California Sur, Mexico, on dry slopes up to 320 m high. It is associated with Yucca capensis and numerous species of cacti .
The first description by Howard Scott Gentry was published in 1978.
Agave capensis is a representative of the Campaniflorae section . Typical of this group are the small, narrow leaves and the abundant sprouting growth. The other members of this section in the Cape region of Lower California, Agave aurea and Agave promontorii , differ in size and leaf structure.
literature
- Howard Scott Gentry: Agaves of Continental North America . University of Arizona Press, 1982, pp. 310, 317-318.
- J. Thiede: Agave capensis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 20 .
- Thomas Heller: Agave capensis In: Agaves . Münster 2003, p. 67.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Occas. Pap. Calif. Acad. Sci. Volume 130, 1978, p. 72.