Agave vicina
| Agave vicina | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Systematics | ||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
| Scientific name | ||||||||||||
| Agave vicina | ||||||||||||
| Trel. |
Agave vicina is a plant from the genus of the Agave ( agave ).
description
Vegetative characteristics
Agave vicina grows sprouting with almost stemless rosettes that have a diameter of about 100 to 120 centimeters. Something their volatile glauken and green pretty shiny with time, very broadly lance-shaped, slightly pointed leaves are flachlich concave. Your leaf blade is 40 to 60 centimeters (rarely 17 to 75 centimeters) long and 12 to 20 centimeters (rarely from 5 centimeters) wide. The leaf margin is somewhat concave. It has marginal teeth 3 to 4 millimeters long, often on green protrusions, 10 to 15 millimeters apart. The slender marginal teeth in the upper half are usually curved upwards, those in the lower half are curved downwards. They arise from a crescent-shaped base. The red-brown, smooth end pin , polished towards its tip, is triangular-needle-like and bent back and forth. It has a round furrow up to its middle and an inwardly curved edge at the base. The end mandrel is 25 to 30 millimeters long and runs down short.
Inflorescences and flowers
The narrow, elongated, "panicle" inflorescence reaches a length of almost 3 meters. The partial inflorescences are located on ascending branches in the upper half of the inflorescence. The inflorescence bears abundant bulbils . The flowers are 40 to 45 millimeters long. Their tepals are yellow. The tips are 15 millimeters long. The open flower tube has a length of about 4 millimeters. The elongated ovary is 20 to 25 millimeters long.
fruit
The wide, elongated fruits are 35 centimeters long and 2.5 centimeters wide. They are very short-stalked and beaked.
Systematics and distribution
Agave vicina is common on Aruba , Bonaire , Curaçao and Isla Margarita .
The first description by William Trelease was published in 1913.
proof
literature
- Urs Eggli (ed.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 70 .