Agave thomasae
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Agave thomasae is a plant from the genus of the Agave ( agave ).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Agave thomasae grows with open, single or moderately sprouting rosettes . Their frosted or slightly cucumber to light green, broadly lanceolate, softly succulent , bendable, tapering, flat to slightly runny leaves are narrowed and thickened towards their base. The leaf surface is smooth up to slightly roughened on the underside. The leaf blade is 60 to 120 inches long and 12 to 17 inches wide. On the edge of the leaf there are 1 to 2 millimeter long teeth that are 10 to 20 millimeters apart. The tiny marginal teeth are reduced to small teeth further down on the leaf margin. The dark brown, awl to needle-like terminal mandrel is slightly furrowed on its upper side. It is 30 to 45 millimeters long.
Inflorescences and flowers
The narrow, "panicle" inflorescence reaches a length of 5 to 8 meters. Its shaft is short. The 30 to 60 crowded, rounded partial inflorescences are located in the upper half to the top five sixths of the inflorescence. The flowers are 60 to 70 millimeters long. Their tepals are purple to yellow. The unequal tips are 19 to 29 millimeters long. The funnel-shaped flower tube has a length of 6 to 11 millimeters. The strongly triangular ovary is 30 to 38 millimeters long.
Systematics and distribution
Agave thomasae is distributed in Guatemala in the pine forest zone at altitudes of 2000 to 2800 meters.
The first description by William Trelease was published in 1915.
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literature
- Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 67 .
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. 138, plate 12 ( online ).
