Nolina longifolia

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Nolina longifolia
Systematics
Monocots
Order : Asparagales (Asparagales)
Family : Asparagaceae (Asparagaceae)
Subfamily : Nolinoideae
Genre : Nolina
Type : Nolina longifolia
Scientific name
Nolina longifolia
( Karw. Ex Schult. & Schult.f. ) Hemsl.

Nolina longifolia is a species of the genus Nolina in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). An English common name is "Oaxacan Tree Nolina".

description

The typical trunk with a thickened base and a corky bark
As a container plant with a typical habit and inflorescences

Nolina longifolia forms a corky trunk with a swollen base and a height of 1 to 3 m. The variable, soft, green falling leaves are 50 to 250 cm long and 10 to 30 mm wide. The leaves are finely toothed.

The irregularly branched inflorescence is 1 to 2 m high. The white flowers are 1.5 mm long and in diameter.

When ripe, the woody, pressed capsule fruits are 8 to 12 mm long and 5 to 8 mm wide. The brown, spherical seeds are 3 to 4 mm in diameter.

Nolina longifolia is frost hardy to minus 8 ° C. It is used as an ornamental plant (trade name often "bottle tree" or "elephant foot"), like the Beaucarnea recurvata , which has a similar habit .

Distribution and systematics

Nolina longifolia is common in Mexico in the states of Oaxaca and Puebla at altitudes of 800 to 900 m in woodland. Associated with Dasylirion species.

Nolina longifolia is a member of the Arborescentes section . The corky trunk, which is swollen at the base, is characteristic.

It was first described as Yucca longifolia in 1830 by Joseph August Schultes and Julius Hermann Schultes . William Botting Hemsley placed them in the genus Nolina in 1884 .

Synonyms are: Beaucarnea longifolia Baker , Dasylirion longifolium Zucc. , Roulinia karwinskiana Brongn.

proof

literature

  • Fritz Hochstätter : The Genus Nolina. (Nolinaceae) . Piante Grasse, 2010, p. 41-42 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Caroli a Linné… Systema vegetabilium: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species. Cum characteribus, differentiis et synonymiis . Volume 7, Part 2, 1830, pp. 1715-1716, online
  2. ↑ Biologia Centrali-Americani; or, Contributions to the Knowledge of the Fauna and Flora of Mexico and Central America . Volume 3, 1884, p. 372, online .
  3. ^ Journal of Botany, British and Foreign . Volume 10, London 1872, p. 328.
  4. ^ Treatises of the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Mathematical-physical class . Volume 3, 1843, pp. 224-225, online .
  5. ↑ Annales des Sciences Naturelles; Botanique . 2nd series, Volume 14, 1840, p. 320.

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