Agave underwoodii
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Agave underwoodii is a plant from the genus of the Agave ( agave ).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Agave underwoodii grows with single rosettes . Their green, more or less narrowly lanceolate, gradually or tapering leaves are concave. Your leaf blade is 100 to 200 centimeters long and 20 to 25 centimeters wide. The leaf margin is straight or slightly concave. There are 2 to 5 millimeters long, brown or chestnut brown peripheral teeth on it, which are about 10 millimeters (extremely rarely up to 30 millimeters) apart. The rather strongly triangular marginal teeth are straight or slightly curved or sometimes hooked (mostly downwards) and arise from a lens-shaped base. The brown, rather dull, smooth or somewhat roughened terminal mandrel is triangular-conical or somewhat sub-like, straight or somewhat curved. It is openly furrowed up to its middle or beyond or has an inwardly curved edge. The end spine is 15 to 25 millimeters long, sloping down and slightly pressed into the green leaf tissue on its back.
Inflorescences and flowers
The wide, "panicle" inflorescence reaches a length of 4 to 8 meters. The partial inflorescences are on sharply bent branches in the upper quarter of the inflorescence. The flowers are 40 to 55 millimeters long. Their tepals are golden yellow. The tips are 15 to 20 millimeters long. The conical, folded flower tube has a length of about 8 millimeters. The ovary is 25 to 35 millimeters long.
fruit
The narrow, elongated fruits are 4 to 4.5 inches long and 1.5 inches wide. They are stalked and beaked.
Systematics and distribution
Agave underwoodii 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. 69 .
Individual evidence
- ^ William Trelease: Agave in the West Indies . In: Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences . Volume 11, 1913, p. 37, plates 67-71 ( online ).
