Agave inaguensis
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Agave inaguensis is a plant from the genus of the Agave ( agave ).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Agave inaguensis sprouts abundantly and forms numerous rosettes . Their usually whitish- blue , elongated or lanceolate, rather abruptly pointed and flat leaves are occasionally folded lengthways. The leaf blade is 40 to 100 inches long and 6 to 9 inches wide. On the edge of the leaf there are 1 to 2 millimeter long teeth that are 3 to 9 millimeters apart. The very narrow, triangular, curved back teeth are almost completely connected by a narrow blackish edge. The dark brown end thorn is 20 to 30 millimeters long.
Inflorescences and flowers
The "panicle" inflorescence reaches a length of 4 to 5 meters. The partial inflorescences are on slender, outwardly curved branches in the upper quarter of the inflorescence. The approximately 50 millimeter long flowers are on 5 to 10 millimeter long flower stalks . Your tepals are yellow, 15 to 17 millimeters long and about 5 millimeters wide. The open flower tube has a length of about 5 millimeters. The almost spindle-shaped ovary is 25 to 30 millimeters long.
fruit
The elongated ellipsoidal fruits are 3 to 4 centimeters long. They are broad and short stalked as well as beaked.
Systematics and distribution
Agave inaguensis is common on the islands of Little Inagua and Caicos, which belong to the Bahamas, on open, sandy plains and rocky, dwarf coastal groves.
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. 38-39 .