Nolina matapensis
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Nolina matapensis is a species of the genus Nolina in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). Foreign language trivial names are "Sonoran Tree Beargrass", "Palmilla", "Sotol" and "Tuya".
description
Nolina matapensis is tree-shaped with heights of 3 to 10 m. The trunk, swollen at the base, has a diameter of 15 to 50 cm. The variable grass-like, light green, linear leaves are 60 to 100 cm long and 10 to 15 mm wide. The leaf margins are finely serrated.
The inflorescence becomes 0.5 to 2 m high with numerous long variable, ramifications. The white to cream-colored flowers are 2 mm long and also in diameter. The flowering period extends from April to June.
The pressed capsule fruits , woody when ripe, are 4 to 5 mm long and 6 to 8 mm wide. The light brown, spherical seeds are 2 to 3 mm in diameter.
Nolina matapensis is frost hardy to minus 8 ° C. She is hardly known.
Distribution and systematics
Nolina matapensis is rare. It is common in Mexico in the states of Sonora and Chihuahua at altitudes of 1800 to 2000 m and grows in woodland.
Nolina matapensis is a member of the Arborescentes section . It is rare, geographically isolated, and has similarities to the Nolina beldingii, which is endemic to Baja California .
It was first described in 1940 by Ira Loren Wiggins .
proof
literature
- Fritz Hochstätter : The Genus Nolina. (Nolinaceae) . Piante Grasse, 2010, p. 40 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Contributions from the Dudley Herbarium of Stanford University . Volume 3, 1940, p. 65.