Furcraea guatemalensis

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Furcraea guatemalensis
Systematics
Monocots
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily : Agave family (Agavoideae)
Genre : Furcraea
Type : Furcraea guatemalensis
Scientific name
Furcraea guatemalensis
Trel.

Furcraea guatemalensis is a species of the genus Furcraea in the subfamily of the agave family (Agavoideae). The specific epithet guatemalensis refers to the occurrence of the species in Guatemala .

description

Furcraea guatemalensis grows with somewhat stem-forming rosettes . The (narrow) lanceolate to almost sword-shaped, moderately concave leaves are pointed. Their opaque green to gray, smooth or slightly roughened leaf blades are 130 to 200 centimeters long (rarely up to 225 centimeters) and 7 to 10 centimeters (rarely up to 15 centimeters) wide. At the top sits a sturdy, awl-shaped terminal mandrel, furrowed at the base . It is 2 millimeters long and 1 millimeter wide. The leaf margin is slightly curved outwards and straight between the projections. The (strongly) upwardly curved, 3 to 5 millimeters (rarely up to 7 millimeters) long peripheral teeth run down on somewhat fleshy elevations. They are red-brown, initially light at the base and later turn maroon. The peripheral teeth are 10 to 30 millimeters (rarely up to 45 millimeters) apart.

The egg-shaped-spherical bulbils bearing, bald, open inflorescence reaches a height of 2 to 5 meters. The bracts are much shorter flower stalks . The flowers are 40 to 45 millimeters long. Your oblong elliptical, light green or greenish whitish tepals are 20 millimeters long and 6 to 11 millimeters wide. The stamens are 10 to 12 millimeters long. The ovary has a length of 15 to 20 millimeters.

The spherical, diced, beaked fruits are stalked. They reach a length of 4 to 5 centimeters and a width of 3.5 to 4 centimeters. The fruits contain seeds 20 millimeters long and 12 to 20 millimeters wide .

Systematics and distribution

Furcraea guatemalensis is common in Guatemala , Belize , Honduras and El Salvador on rocky slopes in pine forests at altitudes of 700 to 2300 meters.

The first description by William Trelease was published in 1915. Furcraea melanodonta Trel is a synonym . (1915).

Furcraea guatemalensis is classified in the genus in the section Furcraea .

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literature

  • Joachim Thiede: Furcraea guatemalensis . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 81 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 99.
  2. ↑ William Trelease : The Agaveae of Guatemala . In: Transactions of the Academy of Science of Saint Louis . Volume 23, Number 3, 1915, pp. 149-150, plate 32 ( online ).

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