Agave caribaeicola
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Agave caribaeicola is a plant from the genus of the Agave ( agave ).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Agave caribaeicola grows with single rosettes . Its shiny green, lanceolate, ascending leaves are very slightly glaucous on the underside and are bent and twisted. They are fairly gradual and strongly concave. The leaf blade is 100 to 200 inches long and 15 inches wide. The leaf margin is straight. There are 1 to 3 millimeter long peripheral teeth on it, which are about 5 centimeters apart. The narrow triangular marginal teeth are red to chestnut brown. Below the middle of the blade, they are twice as long and bent back. The smooth end mandrel is conical and grooved or has inwardly curved edges. It is bent back and has an attached tip or has an elongated, conical, inwardly curved, light brown, basal thickening. The end pin is 15 to 25 millimeters long. It is almost black, rather dull, sloping and inserted into the green leaf tissue on the reverse side.
Inflorescences and flowers
The "panicle" inflorescence reaches a length of 3 to 5 meters. The inflorescence bears bulbils and apparently never fruit . The flowers are about 60 millimeters long. Their tepals are golden yellow. Their tips have a length of 18 to 20 millimeters. The flower tube is open conical and 8 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Agave caribaeicola is common on the islands of Dominica , Martinique , St. Lucia , St. Vincent , Grenadines and Grenada , all of which are part of the Lesser Antilles .
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. 20 .
Individual evidence
- ^ William Trelease: Agave in the West Indies . In: Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . Volume 11, 1913, p. 27, plate 30 ( online ).
