Agave lurida
| Agave lurida | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Agave lurida |
||||||||||||
| Systematics | ||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
| Scientific name | ||||||||||||
| Agave lurida | ||||||||||||
| Aiton |
Agave lurida is a species of agave ( agave ) in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae).
description
Agave lurida grows as a single, short-stemmed, radially symmetrical rosette that rarely sprouts. It reaches heights of 1.2 to 1.7 meters and a diameter of 2.4 to 3.4 meters. The stiffly ascending to outwardly curved, concave to runny leaves are linear-lanceolate and thinner over the slightly narrowed base. The dull green to glaucous gray leaves are usually 110 to 150 centimeters long and 12 to 18 centimeters wide. The leaf margins are almost straight and covered with very regular peripheral teeth, which are usually 1 to 2 centimeters apart and whose larger teeth are 4 to 6 millimeters long. The leaves end in a conical awl, greyish-brown terminal spine 3 to 4.5 centimeters long.
The 6 to 7 meter high inflorescence is paniculate. The more than 20 ascending and diffusely spreading partial inflorescences are located in the upper third to upper half of the inflorescence. The individual flowers are 58 to 65 millimeters long. Their greenish-yellow tepals have roughly the same tip 18 to 24 millimeters in length. The funnel-shaped flower tube is 9 to 11 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Agave lurida is distributed in the Mexican state of Oaxaca in semi-arid and tropical forests at altitudes of 1850 meters.
The first description was published in 1789 by William Aiton . Agave vera-cruz Mill. Is a synonym . According to R. Govaerts, the correct name is Agave vera-cruz Mill. (1768) and Agave lurida Aiton (1789) is the synonym.
proof
literature
- Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 43-44 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hortus Kewensis . 1st edition, Volume 1, p. 472; on-line
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Agave. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved February 12, 2020.