Beaucarnea pliabilis
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Beaucarnea pliabilis is a species of the genus Beaucarnea in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). An English common name is "Tzipil".
description
Beaucarnea pliabilis grows tree-like up to 10 m high with irregular, slender branches. It forms a thickened caudex . The falling, linear, bluish to green leaves with finely toothed edges are 50 to 80 cm long and 4 to 7 mm wide.
The panicle inflorescence is 60 to 80 cm high with 30 to 50 cm wide, irregularly arranged branches. The flowers are cream-colored.
The elliptical to round capsule fruits contain a seed and are 7 to 9 mm long and up to 12 mm wide. The irregularly triangular, cross-wrinkled seeds are 2 to 3 mm long and 5 mm in diameter.
Systematics and distribution
Beaucarnea pliabilis is common in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize in the states of Puebla and Oaxaca in xerophyte regions in deciduous forests.
It was first described as Dasylirion pliabile in 1880 by John Gilbert Baker . Joseph Nelson Rose put the species in the genus Beaucarnea in 1906 . Another of the numerous synonyms is Nolina pliabilis (Baker) Lundell (1939).
Beaucarnea pliabilis is a member of the Beaucarnea section . It grows in dry, tropical forests. The irregularly branched, slender trees with the caudex thickened at the base are characteristic. Typical are the variable, bluish to green falling leaves with the finely toothed leaf edges. It is closely related to Beaucarnea guatemalensis which, however, has shorter leaves and more finely roughened leaf surfaces. Beaucarnea pliabilis is hardly known.
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literature
- CC Walker: Beaucarnea . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 301 .