Agave pachycentra
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Agave pachycentra is a plant from the genus of the Agave ( agave ).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Agave pachycentra grows with a short stem and fairly open, single, rarely sprouting rosettes . The rosettes are up to 1 meter long and 1.5 to 2 meters wide. Their glauk- white to yellowish or light green, variable, broadly lanceolate, tapering, flat to runny leaves are gradually narrowed towards their base. The upper side of the leaf is roughened, the underside more roughened or sharply rough. The leaf blade is usually 60 to 100 inches long and 12 to 18 inches wide. The leaf margin is usually wavy. There are usually 5 to 10 millimeter long peripheral teeth on it, which are 10 to 50 millimeters apart. The variable, brown marginal teeth have straight tips or are curved differently over their low, broad base. The finely awl to almost conical end spine emerging from a broad base is broadly to narrowly grooved and sharply roughened on its upper side. It is usually 40 to 60 millimeters long and runs down to the uppermost peripheral teeth.
Inflorescences and flowers
The open, rather irregular "panicle" inflorescence reaches a length of 4 to 6 meters. The shaft is usually crooked and white frosted when young. The 20 to 30 small partial inflorescences are on rather long stems. The flowers are 45 to 62 millimeters long. Their tepals are yellow. The outer ones are often tipped reddish. The almost identical tips are 13 to 20 millimeters long. The flower tube has a length of 6 to 11 millimeters. The green, ridged, constricted in his neck ovary is 25 to 35 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Agave pachycentra is found in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Chiapas as well as in Guatemala , El Salvador and Honduras in the tropical, deciduous forest at heights of 300 to 1240 meters.
The first description by William Trelease was published in 1915.
proof
literature
- Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 51 .
Individual evidence
- ^ William Trelease: Agave in the West Indies . In: Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis . Volume 23, number 3, 1915, p. 135, plate 7. (online)
