Agave shaferi

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Agave shaferi
Systematics
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily : Agave family (Agavoideae)
Genre : Agaves ( agave )
Subgenus : agave
Type : Agave shaferi
Scientific name
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

Individual evidence

  1. Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 220.
  2. ^ William Trelease: Agave in the West Indies . In: Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . Volume 11, 1913, p. 35, plate 57 ( online ).

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