Nolina micrantha
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Nolina micrantha is a species of the genus Nolina in the asparagus family (Asparagaceae). An English common name is "Chaparral Beargrass".
description
Nolina micrantha grows without a trunk and forms clumps from 0.6 to 1 m in diameter. The variable, grass-like, light green to yellow-colored, concave-convex leaves are 50 to 130 cm long and 2.5 to 6 mm wide. The leaf margins are serrated.
The inflorescence , which has short branches in the leaves , becomes 0.3 to 0.8 m long. The pink flowers are 1.5 to 3.5 mm long. The flowering period is in June.
The round capsule fruits , woody when ripe, are 3 to 5.5 mm in diameter. The brown, spherical seeds are 3 mm in diameter.
Nolina micrantha is frost hardy to minus 15 ° C in Europe . She is hardly known.
Distribution and systematics
Nolina micrantha is rare in the US state of Texas and in Mexico in the states of Coahuila and Chihuahua at altitudes of 1200 to 1900 m. It grows in grasslands, on stony ground and on flat hills. It is associated with Yucca schidigera and various types of cacti.
Nolina micrantha is a member of the Erumpentes section . The appearance is similar to Nolina cespitifera , but it forms larger clumps.
The first description was in 1943 by Ivan Murray Johnston .
photos
In a typical landscape
Small group
proof
literature
- Fritz Hochstätter : The Genus Nolina. (Nolinaceae) . Piante Grasse, 2010, p. 21-22 .
