Agave tubulata
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Agave tubulata is a plant from the genus of the Agave ( agave ).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Agave tubulata grows with rather glossy green, broadly lanceolate, gradually pointed or slightly tapered leaves that are occasionally folded lengthways. Their leaf blades are 60 to 75 centimeters (rarely up to 90 centimeters) long and 15 to 20 centimeters wide. The leaf margin is ragged. There are 1 to 3 millimeter long peripheral teeth on green protrusions, which are 15 to 20 millimeters apart. The marginal teeth are mostly bent upwards towards the tip of the leaf and bent back towards the base of the leaf. They arise from a more crescent-shaped than lenticular base. The brown, matt, smooth end mandrel is needle-conical, slightly bent up or bent back and forth. It is grooved round below its center or has an inwardly curved edge. The end mandrel is 15 millimeters long and descending.
Inflorescences and flowers
The "panicle" inflorescence reaches a length of 2 to 5 meters. The flowers are 30 to 35 millimeters long. Their tepals are yellow. The tips are 12 millimeters long. The narrow, funnel-shaped flower tube has a length of 6 to 8 millimeters. The ovary is 15 millimeters long.
fruit
The wide, elongated fruits are 2 to 3.5 inches long and 1.2 to 1.5 inches wide. They are short-stalked and beaked.
Systematics and distribution
Agave tubulata is common in western 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. 68-69 .
Individual evidence
- ^ William Trelease: Agave in the West Indies . In: Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . Volume 11, 1913, p. 45, plates 99-100 ( online ).