Agave vizcainoensis
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Agave vizcainoensis is a plant from the genus of the Agave ( agave ). An English common name is "Vizcaino Desert Agave".
description
Agave vizcainoensis grows solitary and forms offshoots. The open rosettes are 30 to 50 cm high and 50 to 90 cm wide. The broad, stiff, green to blue colored, fleshy, lanceolate, upright, variably arranged leaves are 25 to 40 cm long and 6 to 10 cm wide. The wavy, horny leaf margins are serrated. The strong, brown to gray terminal spine is 2.5 to 4 cm long.
The paniculate, inflorescence becomes 2 to 3 m high. The yellow flowers are 65 to 75 mm long and appear on the upper part of the inflorescence on irregularly arranged branches. The funnel-shaped flower tube is 8 to 12 mm long.
The elongated brown three-chamber capsule fruits are 50 to 70 mm long and up to 20 mm wide. The black seeds are 6 to 7 mm long and up to 4.5 mm wide.
Systematics and distribution
Agave viscainoensis grows endemically in Mexico, in Baja California Sur , in desert zones at a height of 100 to 250 m. It is associated with succulent and cactus species.
The first description by Howard Scott Gentry was published in 1978.
Agave viscainoensis is a representative of the Deserticolae section . It has limited growth in regions near Sierra Vizcaino in the southern part of the peninsula. The green to blue colored, fleshy, broad, stiff, upright and variably arranged leaves with wavy, horny leaf margins are typical. The species is related to Agave margaritae , which however differs in size and leaf structure. Plants from the Vizcaione area are similar to Agave gigantensis .
literature
- Howard Scott Gentry: Agaves of Continental North America. University of Arizona Press, 1982, pp. 407-408.
- J. Thiede: Agave vizcainoensis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 73 .
