Nolina cespitifera
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Nolina cespitifera is a species of the genus Nolina in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). An English common name is "Trelease Beargrass".
description
Nolina cespitifera grows without a trunk and forms small clumps 0.5 to 0.8 m in diameter. The variable, grass-like, light green to yellow-colored, concave-convex leaves are 40 to 80 cm long and 5 to 15 mm wide. The leaf margins are serrated.
The inflorescence , which is branched in the leaves, becomes 0.3 to 0.6 m long. The pink flowers are 2.5 to 3.5 mm long. The flowering period is in April.
The round capsule fruits , woody when ripe, are 3 to 4 mm in diameter. The brown, spherical seeds are 2 mm in diameter.
Nolina cespitifera is frost hardy to minus 10 ° C in Europe . She is hardly known in.
Distribution and systematics
Nolina cespitifera is extremely rare in Mexico in the states of Coahuila and Zacatecas at altitudes of 1800 to 2000 m. It grows in grasslands, on stony ground on flat hills and is associated with Yucca carnerosana and various types of cacti.
Nolina cespitifera is a member of the Erumpentes section . It is extremely rare in Mexico in the states of Coahuila and Zacatecas . The appearance is similar to Nolina micrantha , but characteristic is the small inflorescence with the short branches and the broader leaves.
It was first described in 1911 by William Trelease .
photos
In pristine nature in central Mexico
Small group in spring
proof
literature
- Fritz Hochstätter : The Genus Nolina. (Nolinaceae) . Piante Grasse, 2010, p. 20 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge . Volume 50, 1911, p. 419, online .
