Agave variegata

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

Agave variegata is a species of the agave genus( Agave ) in the subfamily of the agave family (Agavoideae). The specific epithet variegata comes from Latin , means 'speckled' and refers to the pattern of the leaves of the species.

description

Agave variegata grows with upright, arched, linear-lanceolate, deeply furrowed leaves . The dark green, not spotted or lighter green and brown or green spotted leaf blade is 14 to 44 inches long and 1.2 to 2.7 (rarely up to 3.9) inches wide. The circular to elliptical spots are occasionally glaucous . The leaf margins are usually covered with small teeth spaced apart from each other.

The "eared" inflorescence reaches a height of 60 to 140 (in culture up to 180) centimeters. The flower-bearing part is 14 to 22 (rarely 7.5 to 29, in culture up to 48) centimeters long and bears seven to 29 (rarely up to 41) spread flowers . The ovary is 9 to 16 (rarely up to 19) millimeters long. The perigon tube has a length of 6 to 16 millimeters. The inside yellow-green or mahogany-brown tips are 9 to 13 (rarely 6 to 16) millimeters long. The stylus towers over the flower tube. The flowering period is mainly from March to June.

The spherical to elongated fruits are 1.6 to 1.8 (rarely up to 2.5) centimeters long and 1.3 to 1.6 centimeters wide. They contain seeds 4 to 5 millimeters long and 3 to 4 millimeters wide.

Systematics and distribution

Agave variegata is found in the United States in the south of the state of Texas as well as in the Mexican states of Nuevo León , Hidalgo , Puebla , Tamaulipas , Veracruz and overgrown in the Yucatán in dry chaparral , on slopes, or between rocks and in moist oak forests at altitudes from 10 to 1830 Meters spread

The first description by Georg Albano von Jacobi was published in 1865.

Nomenclatory synonyms are Manfreda variegata (Jacobi) Rose (1903) and Polianthes variegata (Jacobi) Shinners (1966). Also included in the species as a synonym were Manfreda tamazunchalensis Matuda (1966) and Manfreda xilitlensis Matuda (1966)

The species belongs to the subgenus Manfreda and is assigned to the Manfreda group there.

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literature

Joachim Thiede: Agave variegata . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 69-70 .

Individual evidence

↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 250.
↑ Georg Albano von Jacobi: Attempt to a systematic order of the agaves (continued) . In: Hamburg garden and flower newspaper . Volume 21, 1865, pp. 559-562 (online) .
^ Joseph Nelson Rose: Studies of Mexican and Central American Plants - No. 3 . In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . Volume 8, Part 1, 1903, p. 20 ( online ).
↑ Lloyd Herbert Shinners: Texas Polianthes, including Manfreda (Agave subgenus Manfreda) and Runyonia (Agavaceae) . In: Sida . Volume 2, Number 4, 1966, p. 336 ( online ).

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Photo of the bloom of Agave variegata

[1] Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 250.

[2] Georg Albano von Jacobi: Attempt to a systematic order of the agaves (continued) . In: Hamburg garden and flower newspaper . Volume 21, 1865, pp. 559-562 (online) .

[3] Joseph Nelson Rose: Studies of Mexican and Central American Plants - No. 3 . In: Contributions from the United States National Herbarium . Volume 8, Part 1, 1903, p. 20 ( online ).

[4] Lloyd Herbert Shinners: Texas Polianthes, including Manfreda (Agave subgenus Manfreda) and Runyonia (Agavaceae) . In: Sida . Volume 2, Number 4, 1966, p. 336 ( online ).