Agave shaferi
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Agave shaferi is a species ofthe agave genus ( agave ). The specific epithet shaferi honors the American botanist John Adolph Shafer (1863–1918).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Agave shaferi grows with green, elongated, lanceolate, fairly gradually pointed leaves . Your leaf blade is about 75 inches long and 10 inches wide. The leaf margin is slightly concave. There are 1 millimeter long, brown peripheral teeth on it, which are 10 to 20 millimeters apart. The triangular, slightly upwardly or downwardly curved marginal teeth arise from a lens-shaped base. The brown, matt terminal mandrel is conical-sub-like and bent back like a claw. It is grooved in a V shape up to its middle. The end mandrel is 10 millimeters long and not sloping.
Inflorescences and flowers
The "panicle" inflorescence reaches a length of 6 to 7 meters. The flowers are 50 millimeters long. Their tepals are bright yellow. The tips are 14 millimeters long. The conical flower tube has a length of 4 to 6 millimeters. The spindle-shaped ovary is 25 to 30 millimeters long.
Fruits and seeds
Nothing is known about the fruits and seeds .
Systematics and distribution
Agave shaferi is common in eastern Cuba .
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. 62 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 220.
- ^ William Trelease: Agave in the West Indies . In: Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . Volume 11, 1913, p. 35, plate 57 ( online ).