Agave millspaughii
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Agave millspaughii is a plant from the genus of the Agave ( agave ).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Agave millspaughii grows stemless with individual rosettes . Its green, somewhat glossy, narrow, lanceolate leaves are concave. The leaf blade is up to 125 inches long and 15 inches wide. The leaf margin is almost straight. It has 3 to 5 millimeters long, brown to almost black marginal teeth that are 15 to 25 millimeters apart. The narrow, triangular, straight or spreading or sometimes kicked back teeth have occasionally curved tips and are hardly lens-shaped at their base. The red-brown, rather dull, smooth terminal mandrel is conical, straight and grooved up to about its center or it has inwardly curved edges. It is 15 to 20 millimeters long and sloping.
Inflorescences and flowers
The elongated, "panicle" inflorescence reaches a length of about 10 meters. The partial inflorescences are located on slightly rising branches in the upper two thirds of the inflorescence. The approximately 50 millimeter long flowers are on approximately 10 millimeter long flower stalks . Your tepals are yellow, 15 to 20 millimeters long and 4 millimeters wide. The conical flower tube has a length of about 7 millimeters. The spindle-shaped ovary is 25 millimeters long.
fruit
The short elongated fruits are 2 to 3.5 centimeters long. They are short-stalked and beaked.
Systematics and distribution
Agave millspaughii is common in low groves and bushland in the Bahamas .
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. 46 .