Furcraea selloa

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Furcraea selloa
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Furcraea selloa

Systematics
Monocots
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily : Agave family (Agavoideae)
Genre : Furcraea
Type : Furcraea selloa
Scientific name
Furcraea selloa
K. Koch

Furcraea selloa is a species of the genus Furcraea in the subfamily of the agave family (Agavoideae). The specific epithet selloa honors the German gardener, botanist and explorer Friedrich Sello .

description

Furcraea selloa forms 90 to 155 centimeter high trunks. The numerous spread out, narrowly lanceolate to sword-shaped leaves narrow sharply towards their base. Your somewhat glossy dark green, concave and bent back or folded, very rough leaf blade is about 100 to 125 centimeters long and 7 to 10 centimeters wide. The hooked brown marginal teeth are curved differently. They are 5 to 6.5 millimeters long and about 3.3 to 4 centimeters apart.

The loosely branched, bald inflorescence reaches a height of up to 6 meters and bears plenty of bulbils . The flowers are 40 to 65 millimeters long. Your tepals are about 25 millimeters long. The ovary has a length of about 17 millimeters.

Fruits and seeds are not described.

Systematics and distribution

The distribution area of Furcraea selloa is not exactly known. The species has been described using cultured material that appears to have come from Quetzaltenango , Guatemala . According to R. Govaerts, it is based in Colombia and Ecuador.

The first description by Karl Heinrich Koch was published in 1860. Furcraea selloa is classified in the genus in the section Furcraea .

Synonyms are Furcraea selloa var. Edentata Trel. (no year), Furcraea selloa f. edentata (Trel.) H. Jacobsen (1954, nom. inval. ICBN -Article 33.2), Furcraea selloa var. marginata Trel. (no year), Agave cubensis var. striata hort. (no year, nom. invalid ICBN article 29.1), Furcraea flavoviridis Hook. (1860), Furcraea lindenii Jacobi (1869), Furcraea lindenii André (1874, nom. Illeg. ICBN article 53.1), Furcraea cubensis var. Lindenii (André) Hort. Kew (1897) and Furcraea tuberosa Franceschi (1900, nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 53.1).

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literature

  • Joachim Thiede: Furcraea selloa . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 83 .

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. 218.
  2. ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (Ed.): Furcraea - World Checklist of Selected Plant Families of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on July 30, 2018.
  3. ↑ Weekly of the Association for the Promotion of Horticulture in the Royal Prussian States for Horticulture and Herbology . Volume 3, 1860, p. 22.

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