Furcraea samalana
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Furcraea samalana is a species of the genus Furcraea in the subfamily of the agave family (Agavoideae). Thespecific epithet samalana refers to the occurrence of the species in the Guatemalan Samalana Valley.
description
Furcraea samalana grows without a trunk or forms a trunk up to 0.5 meters (rarely up to 2 meters) long. The lanceolate, runny, almost smooth leaves taper to a long point in the upper part. Their green or very slightly grayish leaf blades are 100 to 200 centimeters long and 10 to 15 centimeters wide. The broad, flat outwardly curved leaf margin is concave and horny between the teeth. The reddish chestnut brown, slender and mostly inwardly curved marginal teeth run down over low, fleshy elevations. They are up to 7 millimeters long and are 2 to 5 centimeters (rarely 1 to 6 centimeters) apart. The peripheral teeth are missing in the upper half to the upper two thirds. An end pin is usually missing. If it is present, it is reddish and 1 to 2 millimeters long.
The elongated panicle inflorescence reaches a height of 3 to 5 meters and sometimes bears abundant conical-ovoid bulbils . The bracts are much shorter than the 3 to 6 millimeters (rarely up to 9 millimeters) long, bare flower stalks . The up to three together flowers are 50 to 55 millimeters long. Your elliptical to broadly elliptical, greenish yellow tepals are 30 to 40 millimeters long and 7 to 17 millimeters wide. The stamens are 12 to 14 millimeters long. The ovary has a length of 16 to 25 millimeters and is 2 to 4 millimeters wide.
Fruits and seeds are not described.
Systematics and distribution
Furcraea samalana is common in the Mexican state of Chiapas as well as in Guatemala and El Salvador on rocky slopes in bushes or pine forests at altitudes of 200 to 2700 meters.
The first description by William Trelease was published in 1915.
Furcraea samalana is classified within the genus in the section Furcraea .
use
Furcraea samalana is cultivated on the basis of the fibers obtained from it .
proof
literature
- Joachim Thiede: Furcraea samalana . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 82-83 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton: Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-05597-3 , p. 212.
- ↑ William Trelease : The Agaveae of Guatemala . In: Transactions of the Academy of Science of Saint Louis . Volume 23, number 3, 1915, p. 149, plates 30 and 31 ( online ).
Web links
- Herbarium evidence of Furcraea samalana