Agave harrisii
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Agave harrisii is a plant from the genus of the Agave ( agave ).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Agave harrisii grows with single rosettes . Its rather glossy dark green, narrowly lanceolate, curved leaves are almost flat and gradually pointed. The leaf blade is 100 to 200 inches long and 15 to 35 inches wide. The leaf margin is straight or concave. There are 2 millimeter long peripheral teeth on it, 10 to 20 millimeters apart. The narrow triangular, straight or curved marginal teeth are often on the tips of green protrusions. The reddish brown, shiny, smooth end spine is conical, slightly bent back and forth or bent back and narrowly rutted towards its base. It is 10 to 15 millimeters long and not sloping.
Inflorescences and flowers
The "panicle" inflorescence reaches a length of 8 to 10 meters. The partial inflorescences are located on branches about 60 centimeters long. The flowers are 45 to 50 millimeters long. The flower stalk is rarely longer than 10 millimeters. Their tepals are yellow and about 20 millimeters long. The upright tips are 12 to 15 millimeters long. The open flower tube has a length of about 7 to 8 millimeters. The spindle-shaped ovary is significantly longer than the tepals.
fruit
The narrow, elongated fruits are 4.5 to 5 inches long and 1.5 to 2 inches wide. They are narrowed like a top at the base and short beaked at the top.
Systematics and distribution
Agave harrisii is widespread in Jamaica on the limestone plateaus of the interior at heights of about 650 meters.
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. 35-36 .
Individual evidence
- ^ William Trelease: Agave in the West Indies . In: Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . Volume 11, 1913, p. 34, plates 50-51 ( online ).