Furcraea undulata

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Furcraea undulata
Systematics
Monocots
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily : Agave family (Agavoideae)
Genre : Furcraea
Type : Furcraea undulata
Scientific name
Furcraea undulata
Jacobi

Furcraea undulata is a species of the genus Furcraea in the subfamily of the agave family (Agavoideae). The specific epithet undulata comes from Latin and means 'wavy'.

description

Furcraea undulata grows with (almost) stemless rosettes . The numerous spread out, narrowly lanceolate, concave leaves taper to a long point, are thickened on both sides at their base and keeled on the underside. Their fresh to dark olive-green, smooth leaf blades are 130 to 150 centimeters long and 7 centimeters wide. The leaf margin is wavy. The brown, triangular and upwardly curved peripheral teeth are 5 millimeters long and about 1.7 to 3 centimeters apart. The blunt end thorn is brown.

The richly branched inflorescence reaches a height of 4.5 to 7 meters and has a short stem. The finely downy-haired partial inflorescences have egg-shaped bulbils . The fragrant flowers are fine downy and have a length of about 55 millimeters. Flower stalks . Their tepals are greenish yellow. The outer tepals are 35 millimeters long and 12 to 14 millimeters wide. The inner ones are 20 millimeters wide. The ovary reaches a length of 25 millimeters.

Fruits and seeds are not described.

The chromosome number is .

Systematics and distribution

The natural range of Furcraea undulata is not known with certainty.

The first description by Georg Albano von Jacobi was published in 1869. Furcraea undulata is classified in the genus in the section Furcraea . Their status as an independent species is not guaranteed.

Synonyms are Furcraea pubescens death. (1879) and Furcraea pubescens Baker (1892, nom. Illeg. ICBN -Article 53.1).

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literature

  • Joachim Thiede: Furcraea undulata . In: Urs Eggli (Hrsg.): Succulent lexicon. Monocotyledons . Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-8001-3662-7 , pp. 84 .

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. 247.
  2. ^ Treatises of the Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture. Department for natural sciences and medicine. 1869 . Breslau 1869, p. 170.

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