Agave palustris

Agave palustris
Systematics
Order :	Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family :	Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily :	Agave family (Agavoideae)
Genre :	Agaves ( agave )
Subgenus :	Manfreda
Type :	Agave palustris
Scientific name
	Agave palustris
	( Rose ) Thiede & Eggli

Agave palustris is a species of the agave genus( Agave ) in the subfamily of the agave family (Agavoideae). The specific epithet palustris comes from Latin , means 'belonging to the swamp' and refers to the preferred habitat of the species.

description

Nothing is known about the roots of Agave palustris . Your two to four basal leaves are narrowed at their base. The leaf blade is 20 to 30 inches long and 0.8 to 1.5 inches wide. Their parallel leaf veins protrude somewhat. The three or four shaft blades are greatly reduced towards the top.

The "eared" inflorescence reaches a height of about 40 centimeters. The upright stem bears three to five pairs of flowers . The lower flowers are sessile or stalked up to 5 millimeters, the upper flowers are almost sessile. The flowers smell like tuberose . 30 to 60 mm long their top Windwärts ausspreizenden tepals are outwardly bent near the center. The flower tube is very slightly crooked at its mouth. The egg-shaped, somewhat spread out tips are blunt or bluntly pointed and 5 to 6 millimeters long. The anthers do not protrude from the flower tube.

Nothing is known about the fruits and seeds .

Systematics and distribution

Agave palustris is common in swampy places in the state of Nayarit . The species is only known from the collection of types .

The first description as Polianthes palustris by Joseph Nelson Rose was published in 1903. Joachim Thiede and Urs Eggli placed the species in the genus Agave in 1999 .

The species belongs to the subgenus Manfreda .

proof

literature

Joachim Thiede: Agave palustris . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 51 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 176.
^ Joseph Nelson Rose: Studies of Mexican and Central American Plants - No. 3 . In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . Volume 8, Part 1, 1903, p. 9 (online) .
↑ Joachim Thiede, Urs Eggli: Inclusion of Manfreda Salisbury, Polianthes Linné and Prochnyanthes S. Watson in Agave Linné (Agavaceae) . In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 50, Number 5, 1999, pp. 109-113 (online) .

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 176.

[2] Joseph Nelson Rose: Studies of Mexican and Central American Plants - No. 3 . In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . Volume 8, Part 1, 1903, p. 9 (online) .

[3] Joachim Thiede, Urs Eggli: Inclusion of Manfreda Salisbury, Polianthes Linné and Prochnyanthes S. Watson in Agave Linné (Agavaceae) . In: Cacti and other succulents . Volume 50, Number 5, 1999, pp. 109-113 (online) .