Agave missionum
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Agave missionum is a plant from the genus of the Agave ( agave ).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Agave missionum grows with individual rosettes . Their dark green or very slightly grayish, rather glossy, broadly lanceolate leaves are concave and gradually pointed. The leaf blade is 250 to 275 inches long and 20 inches wide. The leaf margin is almost straight. There are 3 to 5 millimeters long, brown to almost black marginal teeth on it, which are usually 10 to 15 millimeters apart. The straight, slightly curved or curved in one direction or another, the marginal teeth are conspicuously triangular. Small marginal teeth often arise from confluent, lens-shaped bases. The brown or gray in old age, something shiny, smooth Enddorn is triangular-subulate, straight or slightly bent slightly. It is grooved to about the middle or sometimes has inwardly curved edges. The end pin is 15 to 25 millimeters long and descending.
Inflorescences and flowers
The elongated, "panicle" inflorescence reaches a length of 5 to 7 meters. The partial inflorescences are on slightly ascending branches in the upper two thirds of the inflorescence. The flowers are 55 millimeters long. Their tepals are yellow. The tips are 15 to 20 millimeters long. The flower tube has a length of about 7 millimeters. The elongated spindle-shaped ovary is 30 millimeters long.
fruit
The broadly elongated to somewhat top-shaped fruits are 3 to 4 inches long and 2 to 2.5 inches wide. They are stalked and beaked.
Systematics and distribution
Agave missionum is common in Puerto Rico , the Virgin Islands, and Saint Thomas .
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 .
Individual evidence
- ^ William Trelease: Agave in the West Indies . In: Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . Volume 11, 1913, pp. 37-38, plates 72-75 ( online ).
