Agave dasylirioides
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Agave dasylirioides is a plant from the genus of the Agave ( agave ). An English common name is "Dasylirion Agave".
description
Agave dasylirioides forms asymmetrical rosettes. It reaches heights of growth of 30 to 50 cm and a diameter of 60 to 100 cm. The variable, pliable, thin, flat, linear to lanceolate, striped, green to bluish leaves are 40 to 110 cm long and 2 to 3 cm wide. The light yellow leaf margins are finely toothed. The needle-like, red-brown terminal spine is 0.5 to 1.5 cm long.
The spiked, overhanging inflorescence is 1.5 to 2 m high. The yellow to green colored flowers are 10 to 15 mm long and appear on the upper half of the inflorescence, in pairs on short stems. The funnel-shaped flower tube is 8 to 12 mm long.
The egg-shaped three-chamber capsule fruits are up to 20 mm long and up to 10 mm wide. The black seeds are up to 4 mm long and 3 mm wide.
The flowering period extends from November to February.
Systematics and distribution
Agave dasylirioides grows in Mexico in the states of San Luis Potosí , Morelos and Oaxaca on volcanic slopes and in woodland at 1500 to 2200 m altitude. It is associated with cacti and succulent species.
The first description by Georg Albano by Jacobi & Carl David Bouché was published in 1865. Synonyms are Agave dealbata Lemaire ex Jacobi and Agave intrepida Greenman .
Agave dasylirioides is a member of the Striatae group . It shares morphological characteristics with Agave petrophila, but differences in size, shape, leaf, flower and fruit structure are recognizable.
Agave dasylirioides is grown in the Desert Botanical Garden in Arizona.
literature
- August J. Spread: Agave dasylirioides . In: The Agaves . The Cactus & Succulent Journal Yearbook, 1968, p. 37.
- A. Garcia-Mendoza, Martinez Salas: Una nueva especia de Agave subgenero Littaea (Agavaceae) de Guerrero y Oaxaca Mexico . In: Sida . Volume 18, No. 1, 1998, pp. 227-230.
- Howard Scott Gentry: Agaves of Continental North America . University of Arizona Press, 1982, pp. 236-242.
- T. Heller: Agaves . Münster 2006, pp. 77-78.
- J. Thiede: Agave dasylirioides . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , p. 24.
- B. Ullrich: A new location for Agave dasylirioides Jacobi & Bouche in Oaxaca . In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 41, No. 8, 1990, pp. 164-166.